Literature
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.
Dementia, Do your Worst
Stop thinking your wife is screwing the milkman. / There aren’t any more milkmen
