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2012-05-24T00:00:53-07:00May 24th, 2012|Parenthood|

Request from the audience

I was in a talkative mood
so you stacked

pyramid of wooden blocks
miniature UPS truck
blender lid
tennis ball

while I went on
about my book idea

your little body so quiet
bent over your cockeyed masterpiece

only when I told you
about how your dad
filmed the garbage truck that morning
because you missed it

did you look up and speak

more
more

so we ran a bath
and I told you story after story
about your dad
and later under the quilt
both of us lying there
with luck in our bellies
waiting for him to come home.

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