1.
looked up at the sea for a moment, and
then on a glasscloth and began to
wipe the spoons and house, from which the mellow
lamplight streamed, a delicious languor so
tacitly suggestive of the mother
and the brats, tangled in accord. It washes
with estranged grain, your furniture, so
your feet are free of the burden of travel. When you
had the east and brittle
coast of the west before you, they'd
stolen the boat and strung you along.

2.
Your name is Louise Andersen, now?
After all these years, I didn't expect you as such; well, pleased
to make your acquaintance. In spite of the
discussion of business, really,
how spiteful has business become?
Motherhood has treated you well, what of them
you thought to be promising is a daily reassurance; your crowsfeet
are obscured with an weighted pride.

3.
December has seen the worst
of the winds over the harbor,
so you pinned an arrogant hair,
before he came airborne.