From the collection published in 2021, The Immediate and No Sooner.
795.
blue chalk eyeshadow
on the smiling yellow face
scrawled on the sidewalk
1/23/20
796.
these seven letters
my name painstakingly drawn
in my first-grade hand
1/23/20
797.
tornado season
in the middle of the night
the house cut in two
1/23/20
Three very different vibes in these poems: charming, nostalgic, terrifying.
Thank you. I guess the tornado one has extra meaning now that we have had one in our area, but this was a memory from my childhood. A house where the tormado went right through the middle of it, leaving two sides standing and the middle an open space.