Narrow Cradle by Wade Kearley

Author:Wade Kearley [kearley, wade]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781550818154
Publisher: Breakwater Books Ltd
Published: 2020-04-02T00:00:00+00:00

—a reason to smile

I choke on my own voice

and run into the driveway,

angry with you, angry with me,

that I let you make me spin out of control.

I feel like a knee-jerk watch dog.

I wash your clothes, mind the grandkids.

Inbound jets come roaring out of the sky.

Things could be okay.

I stub my toe on a brick someone left

in the driveway. I pick up the scooter

and the bike, hobble them into the backyard.

Everything is alright.

The garden is overgrown, grass in thick clumps.

New leaves hang frost nipped, last year’s grapes

are raisins on the vine, and I realize

the weight I feel in my bones

is mine alone to carry.

I see a stranger in the street

with a woman on his back.

They don’t know me,

but I wonder if they could tell me

why I’m laughing?

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