This Is a Love Story

by Jessica Soffer

called quality time. There are at least a dozen domestic disputes reported to the Park precinct a week. Oh yes, sir, I really did

Maybe for you, I think, joy in security, security in consistency, consistency in love.

You remember I wrote you haikus about your belly, your feet.

What I want to say now is that I know how lucky I am, and have been. Without your mother, you were a bird without your flock. How hard it must have been to do anything. Make art, fall in love, have a child of your own.