Saturday morning
duck pin bowling league
spare me
one man’s umbrella
another woman’s parasol
mine a question mark
faculty party
Ph.D. candidate
sucks down the half
half empty
full bodied bottle
Saturday morning
duck pin bowling league
spare me
one man’s umbrella
another woman’s parasol
mine a question mark
faculty party
Ph.D. candidate
sucks down the half
half empty
full bodied bottle
people watching
I birth
a new mood
tool box
I dig out our
resentments
Negative. Again. Another month and I’m not pregnant. My husband could never understand what it’s like to fail at being a woman.
blue and pink threads
of the hospital
blanket
I could have been
a boy
Victoria’s Secret
in the window
my wife’s wrinkles
black and white
photos of my school days
new patch of gray hair
behind the hearse
carrying the former mayor
a few people
. . . and the garbage truck
keeps its safe distance
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