Pet Sounds

Thanks, also, to curators at the Berkeley Art Museum who included a poem from Pet Sounds in the Way Bay postcard series.

Thanks to the editors of About a Bicycle, Cordite Poetry Review, P Queue, and Lana Turner Journal where some of these poems first appeared.

everybody knows you cannot own a plant

most of the time, the hardest parts

getting in and out of the shower

she takes care of Mark by letting him care for her

like a romantic comedy

what passed for a series of choices in my lifetime

I will have become a cat lady

I call you my person mostly

I said partner for a while

it felt wrong

it doesn’t matter

what didn’t kill us

didn’t kill us