Two poems this week in Misfit Magazine along with other wonderful poets. I’ll post one today and one tomorrow. My thanks to Alan Caitlin for including me. He is retiring as editor of Misfit, and the poetry world will miss him.

Sidelines

The father of my children died this week.
We’d both remarried, but his wife
passed away a year or two ago.
What was my place in the final vigil,
announcement to friends, sorting
household stuff, paperwork?
I consoled, cooked, hugged my kids
and their kids. But it felt like being
in the stands, lamenting a football loss
that wasn’t even close.