sleepless and selfless
I smile at her
smiling at the baby
smiling
sleepless . . .
the baby’s age
in days
children’s ICU–
a tissue box beside
the pay phone
not dead roses
she corrects me
. . . dried
John Stevenson from Some of the Silence
(Red Moon Press,1999)
“#1mom” potluck
No Punditry Today: Finally got my priorities straight – I’m heading to
Rochester, NY, to see Mama G. (catch her here in 1950 with Your Editor
and that other kid who also wanted her attention).
The sleepless and selfless by David Giacalone, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.