Has a Night Named for Its Lace

Every mother’s nightgown has a sill and a jamb.

Has a child who touches her face and walks through.

Each nightgown dreams it’s made of glass

or is hungry for a name to hold the wind inside.

 

Every nightgown is the mothersmoke circling the child’s sleeping head.

(What I say floats down the hall when midnight bends.)…

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