In recognition of National Gun Violence Awareness Day on June 7, I would like to share a video of "Valentine's, Another Day," the opening poem of Counting by Sevens (forthcoming from Main Street Rag later this summer), performed here with my daughter Abigail. I wrote "Valentine's, Another Day," in the immediate aftermath of the deadly February 14, 2018 shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and it was published later that week in Poets Reading the News. Abby and I first read it together at The Ethical Community Charter School a month later, for National School Walkout Day. This, along with other poems I wrote last winter reflecting on the violence in our nati