POEM INDEX

kitchen dance


my young sons
share the radio
they find a rhythm
seek a beat
and find in me
their partner

today I hold them
without heat
as we turn by the stove
but I know
someday those they lie with,
or to,
will blame me for
the excess

they will say:
"your mother's skeletons
are lodging in your bones"

but today we dance
to music someone's playing


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