In the laundry basket, my son's gray socks.
Sticky cereal bowls in the sink.
On the bathroom counter my husband's razor
recharging with the seriousness of a heartbeat.
The house abuzz with necessity.
I can't stop; I can't slow down.
Kristine Rae Anderson's poetry has appeared in Crab Creek Review, poeticdiversity, Phase and Cycle, the anthology Active Voices IV, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in poetry from New England College. In 2005 she was awarded a Tomales Bay Fellowship in poetry, and was awarded a Fishtrap Fellowship for 2006. On one parent's side, she is a descendant of Benedict Arnold; on the other's, she is a descendant of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition. (She's not sure whether these facts mean anything, and, to be honest, she's not sure she wants to know if they do.)
In the laundry basket, my son's gray socks.
Sticky cereal bowls in the sink.
On the bathroom counter my husband's razor
recharging with the seriousness of a heartbeat.
The house abuzz with necessity.
I can't stop; I can't slow down.