<div class="line">I keep drawing the first</div>
<div class="line">one from the cemetery</div>
<div class="line">into the house</div>
<div class="line">and pose her</div>
<div class="line">perfect as a mannequin</div>
<div class="line">at the kitchen table</div>
<div class="line">where, chin resting</div>
<div class="line">on a long-fingered hand,</div>
<div class="line">she surveys</div>
<div class="line">the bran muffins</div>
<div class="line">and finds them crumbly.</div>
<div class="line">I imagine her coming</div>
<div class="line">to their bed</div>
<div class="line">smooth-bodied.</div>
<div class="line">I arrive bone tired,</div>
<div class="line">half a century</div>
<div class="line">etched in my flesh.</div>
<div class="line">She gave him</div>
<div class="line">babies. I, a notebook</div>
<div class="line">filled with poems.</div>


Conduction

Among the Baby Bok Choy

Second Wife

<p><em>There are many ways to kneel</em></p>
<p class="epil"><em>and kiss the earth<br />—Rumi </em></p>
<div class="line">At his workbench, my Catholic husband</div>
<div class="line">becomes a Buddhist practicing mindfulness.</div>
<div class="line">As if entranced, he attends the hammer’s</div>
<div class="line">rhythmic up-and-down. He feeds the planer</div>
<div class="line">a plank of cedar. Beside a Folger’s coffee</div>
<div class="line">can of nails on the windowsill, the clock</div>
<div class="line">ticks the present tense: <em>is, is, is</em>. When he</div>
<div class="line">walks to the table saw, he moves deliberately</div>
<div class="line">like an egret stepping into its own watery</div>
<div class="line">reflection. There he contemplates the sawness</div>
<div class="line">of saw. He doesn’t brush off the sawdust</div>
<div class="line">film falling all over him like a coat of serenity.</div>
<div class="line">Sometimes he makes a rocking cradle,</div>
<div class="line">sometimes a porch swing for us to sit in.</div><figure class="wp-block-audio"><audio controls src="https://admin.rattle.com/audio/OBrienSawdust.mp3"></audio></figure>

Modesty

Next in Line

Sawdust

<div class="line">My advice to you is this: Commit</div>
<div class="line">some bright, brave sins</div>
<div class="line">while you have time. I admit</div>
<div class="line">that most of mine</div>
<div class="line">are timid, and now, confined</div>
<div class="line">to a wheelchair, if I decide to go</div>
<div class="line">where deviltries invite me,</div>
<div class="line">I’d have to have my husband drive me.</div>


My Beautiful Father the Fire Bird

Have Coffin, Need Pallbearers

A Little Sermon

<p class="epil"><em>for Gene, turning 75</em></p>
<div class="line">Bring me all the synonyms for husband but don’t</div>
<div class="line">expect me to find the one I need. It’s buried</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">in a medieval story I once read about Bede,</div>
<div class="line">the monk who fell asleep and dreamed a sparrow</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">flew in a window facing east, swooped across</div>
<div class="line">the room, and out a window west. <em>Glide and gone</em>,</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">the Irish poet put it, calling the little space</div>
<div class="line">between dawn and stardust our brief home.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">Home—the private journal where we learn who</div>
<div class="line">we are by recording who we love. Home—</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">where we are cozy breathing silence, and where,</div>
<div class="line">growing old, we grow easier to see through.</div>


Whiteout

Boardwalk Empire

Home

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