“On Having Children” by Kimberly Kruge (poetry ’15)
An excerpt from “On Having Children” by Kimberly Kruge (poetry ’15), published by Connotation Press: An Online Artifact.
On Having Children
What I don’t want? I think I know:
I don’t want to become tenuous again, right when
I’d gotten things down, when I could ride
the highway without turning into a bag of bones, right
when I could catapult at 40,000 feet without
incinerating and could look at the woman in the first seat
of the plane bounce up to shuffle her bags and say to myself
she knows she’ll never die, what children she’ll have—
But, I don’t want a world of ladders, of high windows,
[… continue reading and find two more poems by Kimberly Kruge (poetry ’15) at Connotation Press: An Online Artifact.]
