AN ONABOOBOO

she copies my cat
laughs as the word leaps
into my voice

she sticks to her own
word for cat
"Onabooboo!" she chants

"C-A-T...spells. . ?"
I prompt her
"Onabooboo!" she screams

I leave her to her word
for now a cat must be
an "ONABOOBOO!"

I smile as she
her own little Adam
names things as she wants them to be

and so darling daughter
invents her own language
words flock to her

even now all this time later
I still pause before the word "C-A-T"
try hard not to call it an "ONABOOBOO!"