Parenting is like a culinary first attempt at chocolate pudding from scratch. Whipping French cocoa He runs recipes around the bases tossing Ninja Turtles into the microwave Come here 'Sweetie Pie' Please help keep the Batter together 1/12/97
Words of Advice to a Son
Keep your treads straight In spite of the flinches Keep your courage Deal with the clenching pain Get up on time Again fight off the bummers Show off your grateful colors Dress by the numbers break at the seams Then regain in your own dreams Do better than your imagination and Don't worry about missed registration Take your soul and fly to the heights and if you need more vision recomfigured Remember: Indoor plumbing is gonna be big! 1/12/97
Prenatal Parley
Early morning.
My hand on your head.
A thin stretch of
Your mother's skin now
Between us.
At 20 weeks
you may be sucking your thumb
beginning to grasp.
My thumb presses inward,
Nudging you.
You kick back.
Again my thumb,
Again you flutter,
Between slumber and sunrise.
1/12/97