As his chortles edge toward whimpers, as the raspberries he loves to blow become sputters of displeasure, as indelicate, errant fists swipe the air around his face, as his lopsided grin creases into a frown and back into a grin, I remember. I set him against my shoulder, but still he tosses his head side […]
Monthly Archives: March 2009
I. Without The squirrels scrabble up the trees And down again, while frantic robins, Clumsy with fatigue, guard their nests For threats to their not quite born. They never do prepare for loss, Though those speckled eggs of theirs End up ransacked and raped Six times in ten. Their Zealous care, against those odds, Squeezes […]
Every week when I was a child I was trotted off to the Central Park Zoo. It was an Outing, which meant that I was to wear my boiled wool grey princess coat with its stiff velvet collar, white tights that pooched out uncomfortably around the ankles, and always the patent leather Mary Janes with […]
Bare and spare trees tip towards the sun, Soldiers standing at attention, well past Ready to be counted. They clutch at stray Crisped elderly leaves, tattered tickets To this, the changing of the guard. In the streets mothers unclench their grip On squirmy progeny who spin and skip Before casting furtive looks at grown-ups Whose […]
