Tagged: screaming
in the middle of
in the middle of
the night, we
deal with sudden
pain the only way we know
how – Vivienne, screaming
at the top of your
fifteenth-month-old
lungs for ten minutes
at a quarter to two
makes as much
sense as any
while the rest of us lie
achingly still
in the dark, perhaps
hoping to be picked up
.
20170118:0204
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it’s 4:10 a.m.,
it’s 4:10 a.m.,
and vivienne doesn’t like
the end of daylight
savings and everything her
tiny body knows about
the way we force time
to flex arbitrarily.
her lungs are still puncturing
the darkness of 5:10 a.m.
as we practice wading
backwards through the
minutes until someone
can pick her up
from her cradle,
rock the additional
hour soothingly
into a new slumber
.
20161106:0433
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vivienne, you are
vivienne, you are
exercising those powerful
lungs from the second
floor, ready for a lifetime
of song and dance, some shrieking
.
20161005:0745
y
vivienne, this is
vivienne, this is
just the beginning to a
lifetime of waking,
sometimes from a pain that wants
to be set free, sometimes not
.
20160409:0444
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