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Sunday, May 19th 2013
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No commentsOna Gritz is a prize-winning poet and the author of two children’s books. Her essays have been published in numerous anthologies and journals, most recently The Utne Reader, More magazine and The Bellingham Review, where she placed second for the 2008 Annie Dillard Award for Creative Nonfiction. She has received five Pushcart Prize nominations for her work. Ona lives in Hoboken, New Jersey with her teenage son, Ethan.
The stray ballpoint, a gun.
Umbrella, a sword.
Hands empty,
the air gets a roundhouse kick.
Is this typical "boy" I want to ask.
Or just typical of this boy?
Past bedtime he's enacting battles,
strategies elaborate as chess rules.
Finally, he crash-lands beside me,
seeks my shoulder, slurs "Mommy . . ."
I stroke his sweat-damp hair
until, shifting position, he sleeps,
arms thrown back in surrender.
