Spring Lament
this spring is like that man in the white
shirt
radiating heat even from his thumbs
standing so close we steal each other’s air
a wedding band glaring on his finger
this spring is like that man in the white
shirt
radiating heat even from his thumbs
standing so close we steal each other’s air
a wedding band glaring on his finger
He took to reading Chekhov late at night
and studied up on Fox Talbot and calotypes.
An Essay When I gave birth at 45, I discovered that 35 and above is deemed “Advanced Maternal Age,” so
I get letters for the dead. They blow out of the mailbox and into the snow. I find them
When the children were small and sleeping,the night warm and raining, I would go out to a place under the