“A Partial List of Things I Can’t Control” by Jill Klein (poetry, ’16)

A poem with audio by Jill Klein (poetry, ’16) appears in Tinderbox Poetry Journal.

 

A Partial List of Things I Can’t Control

The rain, which is inconsolable.

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The day the morays go out to sea.

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The lives of fish in February.

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Carpenter bees who think it’s Spring.

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Contempt with a side of sugar.

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The swimming pool: when it opens, when the baby without a diaper—

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