Poetry

Mom-capped Mom. She’s tired, slumped, surrounded by six little ones.

Everything we read, if we read it deeply enough, changes us.

Bees love catnip; they go crazy for it; afterward, we drowsed, full of honeyed sweetness like the bees that browse

In the plaza, he pirouettes, juggling, glittering mysteries.

This did not have to happen. No, none of this had to happen.

Homely, lonely night. Venus shines against vacancy.He doesn’t paint the bars that keep him so far from starry