Tag: family life
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A Sort of Spring Clean (Two Little Girls Share a Room)
We clean the stuff off of dressers and out of drawers and find we’re overwhelmed. This is the cost of stuff. Pictures and drawings, cards, notes, crayon mandalas, each one a decision. We make piles: Keep, Give, Throw. We find dentist-office toys (plastic eyeballs), library-toys, (fluorescent bouncy balls) birthday party favors (fake nose and glasses, and…
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We Wake To Hope (A Poem for My Husband)
As if their bedrooms hung with vines all around they sleep and dream of fun and frightful things, nestled in blankets of soft straw and grasses, bedding made of cozy sticks and silent leaves. As if they were little wild things in their caves they wake and stretch their jaws with long yawns, their round faces…
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A Stay-At-Home Rhyme
The laundry basket’s full of books, the clothes are on the floor; wilted flow’rs sag o’er the vase, a pretty sight no more. The dishes don’t engage me, they’re a load-and-empty bore; the house is full of mindless noise, cries and whines galore! Lunch is prepped and served at noon, no, never feels a chore;…
Amy Secrist 