Tag: children
Heirlooms
Grandma taught us all
that her sickly parents
sent her down
to the old-timey version
of what we all came to know
as Pic 'N' Save
with a pocketful of nickels and old-timey coupons
to buy old-timey expired food
so big girl Grandma could portion out little pieces
for her …
Heroes and Danger: A Role-Playing Game for Pre-Literate Children
In the summer of last year I babysat once a week for a family of three kids: four, six, and eight years old. Being an adult nerd I see it as my personal responsibility to bring up the next generation, so I looked around for a tabletop role-playing game suitable …
Conspiracy
Here in the place you left, I stay
vigilant through the days of your absence
and begin to notice
a pattern: slight but unmistakable
suggestions, unlikely coincidences
among the day's arrangement of smiles,
daylight, flashes of delight.
Here in the place you left
longing, a conspiracy vast
beyond imagining takes …
Three Deep Breaths
Reading the news
and all the angry discussion
about which lives matter
enough to be angry about, particularly,
and which lives matter not
particularly but only beneath
a blanket statement of generalized compassion
(assuming compassion and prayer
are a zero-sum game),
I keep thinking
about my body
and about three …
What Martyrdom Means to Me
"and when I heard that, a distant chime went off for me,remembering a time when I believedthat I could simply live without it."—Tony Hoagland, "What Narcissism Means to Me"
Oh, what a thrill to be juggled!
One touch and you're soaring. Up you go,
delirious, until the …