It seems at times
as if the galaxies have churned ten times over
as if months have given way to years, and years to...
I buried our love
in the backyard
with a hatchet—
it’s still there;
it’s grown into
a leafy tree
and each Spring,
buds blossom into
fruit and...
What kind of mother tells
her children stories of
a man killing his own son?
(my ears closed hands
tugging the book from the
shelf hands tearing pages
cleanly out hands flipping
the broken binding into a
dark space it will join the
peels and old paper)
I won’t tell my children
of such things.