12/1/2014 My youngest is off visiting college, hopefully one she’ll attend next fall. I feel funny and unsettled. I should be writing for money. But as acknowledgement of my feelings, here’s a poem I wrote in 2004:
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Nobody told me
how dark it is at three am when the baby runs a fever
Nobody told me
how hard it is to keep saying “no” with love
Nobody told me, either,
about the blinding brilliance of my own child’s smile
or how soft the hair that receives kisses
before the boy is off again.
May 2004
Here’s one of my favorite poems I’ve ever written