The Night We Decide on Divorce

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Ona 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.

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Our son sleeps beneath his quilt
with the bright triangle fish,
his stuffed dog tossed and trapped
between the mattress and wall.
Water warms to the temperature of air
in its plastic cup by the bed
and clothes still smelling of juice and sun
lay heaped on their corner of floor.
His shelves of toys
form their usual shapes in the dark
while he breathes in a rhythm
*mealtime, playtime, bath*
like the day he rests from
and the day he expects
come morning.

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