Leatha Kendrick Photo: slingshots+meo remalante A day at home, no big news. Alone, with CNN and tea, stiff bones of the Christmas tree, ravenous for unsweet things. After the gush of singing, unsought treats and gifts, it’s time to pay. A rush to Returns’ endless line. A fine for late-mailed, past-due bills. It’s back to […]
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First Week of January
4 February, 2010 от · 3 comments
First Grandson
23 January, 2010 от ·
Leatha Kendrick Photo: rolands.lakis This boy sleeps on my lap, his fists curled and pink as April oak leaves. His feet root against my arm. His head a soft arc against my bent arm. When I reach across his belly’s curve, my arm brown-spotted, pale, his breath unfurls a scream. I am the rotting log […]
List Poem
9 January, 2010 от · 7 comments
Leatha Kendrick Photo: koalazymonkey Remember the milk (2% of the time I forget.) Remember that Brown Swiss calf we brought home in the back seat of Daddy’s old gray Dodge?
