The Book of Life
Even a natural disaster can’t shake off / the disaster that is love, a woundedness that won’t let you skulk away
Blowing Bubbles With My Pregnant Daughter
To prove she’s stronger than you think, she’ll cartwheel past the dogs that / chase her and somersault over the boys with sticks
A Love Letter for Annie Dillard
I made it to New Orleans / and the music wasn’t loud enough
Boys; or Oysters
like a lily at dawn / would bend to dew
An Entrancement of Earrings: (Sea Glass Earrings)
There were other days, days that came later. Days of tumbling and roaring, rolling and rollicking, bouncing and breathlessness.
