Cooking Is 80 Percent Confidence, A Skill

I Know I Have To Write About The Things That Keep Me Awake At Night.

Thanks For This Day, For All Birds Safe In Their Nests, For Whatever This Is, For Life.

You Know Things Are Bad When A Woman Without Any Legs And Who Recently Lost Two Of Her Own Kids Feels Sorry For You.

Most Of The Girls My Age, Or Even Younger, Have Babies. They Appear Way Too Young To Be Married, Till You Look In Their Eyes. Then You'll See It. Their Eyes Look Happy And Sad At The Same Time, But Unexcited By Anything, Shifting Easily Off To The Side As If They've Already Seen Most Of What There Is. Married Eyes.

A Wife Is The Earth Itself, Changing Hands, Bearing Scars.