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Poems from in between

Poems from in between

Category Archives: Parenting

Birds work all through the night

May 9, 2018

I don’t know what they do this time of night. I just hear them squawking. And they sound a little …

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On counting cairns

August 2, 2017

Tomorrow my son moves back in bringing inexhaustible items in large clear sacks that swallow the floor like jellyfish claiming …

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Effigy Mound

May 13, 2017

In my belly, now flat, curled a spine with indistinct tissue wrapped around its tiny bones like those of a …

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My father finds comfort in crows

May 3, 2017

Inexplicable. That is what I say when you tell me and all I can do is shrug and count: How …

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Even so

March 4, 2017

Even as you sit smoking weed in the room I just cleaned and leave your papers and dirty dishes on …

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Waiting for the doctor

November 10, 2016

hazy dry, as if in midair distant beeps, rattles, blood pressure cuff wheezing up, releasing, hour after hour, day may …

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How to live in a dorm

September 10, 2016

Label everything. Your scent will not do. Your good grades will not do. Use only indelible ink. Label it with …

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