My Teenager
The New Republic (nprofile…6kn7)
Last thing I thought I wantedin lifeinvite the adolescent to tea,who knewwhat was trueand anything else wouldn’t do,who’d sit with hera minute more than thecalendrical reality,yet now will I pause and beckonwith a little twitch of the shoulderyou don’t want to beckon too broadly,the very weakness of gestureyou may trace to the cool requiredbalanced by warm desire,I do not think of her muchI’m almost unable to think of hera curtain drops in front of her if she is anywhere near,yet I beckon with that one shoulderand in so doing she tends to flickerin my own person,and then I don’t think that I comeas such a surprise to her,
https://newrepublic.com/article/192097/teenager
Last thing I thought I wantedin lifeinvite the adolescent to tea,who knewwhat was trueand anything else wouldn’t do,who’d sit with hera minute more than thecalendrical reality,yet now will I pause and beckonwith a little twitch of the shoulderyou don’t want to beckon too broadly,the very weakness of gestureyou may trace to the cool requiredbalanced by warm desire,I do not think of her muchI’m almost unable to think of hera curtain drops in front of her if she is anywhere near,yet I beckon with that one shoulderand in so doing she tends to flickerin my own person,and then I don’t think that I comeas such a surprise to her,
https://newrepublic.com/article/192097/teenager