My Childhood Is Still - a found poem

Another found poem, created from one line of the poem, "Celebrating Childhood" by Adonis (translated, from the Arabic, by Khaled Mattawa), that line being “My childhood is still…”

My childhood is still
someone else's story

I see her in a photograph
the pigeon-toed girl
with worn-down heels,
brown skin and pedal pushers

her strong body
made for swimming
and climbing trees

standing between the two
her half-crooked smile
looks familiar

but only because
I've heard the stories
so many times

I can't find me in her
between the two
I don't even recognize