POETRY: In Collections

Poems published in literary anthologies and collections

Remains of a Marriage

The ending is not new, yet still

I hesitate to face the remains

of time resurfacing as I clean

out closed drawers, sort through

sealed attic boxes.

Two mothers, we sat

and drank, gazed into our glasses,

zeroed in on anger, and felt afraid

of the world that had never been

safe for our children.