I’m scrambling an egg for my daughter.
\n“Why are you always whistling?” she asks.
\n“Because I’m happy.”
\nAnd it’s true.
\nThought it stuns me to say it aloud;
\nThere was a time when I wouldn’t
\nHave seen it as my future.
\nIt’s partly a matter
\nOf who is there to eat the egg:
\nThe self fallen out of love with itself
\nThrough the tedium of familiarity,
\nOr this little self,
\nSo curious, so hungry,
\nWho emerged from the woman I love,
\nA woman who loves me in a way
\nI’ve come to think I deserve,
\nNow that it arrives from outside me.
\nEverything changes, we’re told,
\nAnd now the changes are everywhere:
\nThe house with its morning light
\nThe fills me like a revelation,
\nThe yard with its trees
\nThat cast a bit more shade each summer,
\nThe love of a woman
\nThat both is and isn’t confounding,
\nAnd the love
\nOf this clamor of questions at my waist.
\nClamor of questions,
\nYou clamor of answers,
\nHere’s your egg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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