Wife

First

The feelings I thought of:

Tesseracting heartbeat in my heel

Pumping wooze in my belly

Sucking cubism in my mind’s eye

Second

The things that climb tree branches:

Neon moss backlit

Strands of lights in the rain

The stories I told that crowded my listener

Third

The songs we wish we wrote:

I met two dads in a zoom break out room

They said plainsong and tea for the tillerman

So I said tusk but I also thought ever again by robyn

Wouldn’t it be cool to make dance music?

Fourth

Questions about those dads:

What is one grief

What did they think of me

Did the things we said to each other make them feel possibility

Like the kind I felt

Like spring