goodwifthing
do you
know what you're having one
hopes for
a
human being a howlet
a girlchild
give
history a black eye wee beastie
specks
of saintliness & labor sticking
in
great heavy unbeautiful clots yes
this
creature bled for fifty-two days &
we
sink her like a stoned crow own
daughterthing
a
wolf bears a poor whelp to the wood she
translates
an anglo-saxon sparrow relict
goody's
shoes one
each in two pits each half-
filled
with stones the size of the average man's
fist wife as a verb
is rare obsolete
intransitive it
is hard to wive &
thrive
both in a year so they say
Pattie McCarthy is the author of six books of poetry : Nulls (horse less press 2014), and five from Apogee Press: Quiet Book (2015), Marybones (2012), Table Alphabetical of Hard Words (2010), Verso (2004), and bk of (h)rs (2002). She lives just outside Philadelphia with her husband and their three children.
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