The Sleepwalker
According to a Stanford University study, only 3% of the U.S. population continues sleepwalking into adulthood. (I) Last night I woke, startled— thought he was lost: milk-starved and terrified. New… Read more →
According to a Stanford University study, only 3% of the U.S. population continues sleepwalking into adulthood. (I) Last night I woke, startled— thought he was lost: milk-starved and terrified. New… Read more →
He offers his doll milk, tends to her the way he is tended to: wet kiss, skitter touch, murmur. Before language there is gesture. He holds her— arms wrapped around cloth body, pressed to his small chest— the way I held him in the NICU: fiercely, as if he was bargain instead of grace. \\ He crouches over pinecone and… Read more →