Story
Time
you snuggle into my lap
taking refuge
your favorite story book
perched just right
I
read
as you chirp
Tell me the pictures,
Nana
ostensibly a story about a boy
and his song
you are transfixed
by the mommy
who stays home
shaping sweet cookies
singing a Baking
Song
and the daddy who comes home
after a day at work
welcomed by the mommy
and the boy
singing the Daddy’s
Home Song
and I want to hurl the book
into the holes in your life
made by a mommy and a daddy
who rarely inhabit the same space
and whose songs
are the stuff of nightmares
--Katherine McLeod Searle
4 Sep. 2007
