"From the Doorway" by Catherine Barnett:
The night is covered
in books and papers and childand I like having him here,
sleeping loose and uninhibited.The room fills with sleep
and the poor dummy heartalready straining at my seams
makes the tearing sound.Fear. Or laughter.
Love,The strangest
of all catastrophes.
(From The Game of Boxes: Poems © 2012 by Catherine Barnett. Reprinted by permission of Graywolf Press. Photo by Flickr user Hannah & Noah)
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