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Opening Line
December 11, 2022

Last night I dreamt of the perfect opening line
to a poem that would, I had no doubt, piece

back together the crumbling world. It was a line
that drew you in, breathless, that made you drop

everything—coffee, that online shopping cart
one click from arriving at your door—and pay

attention, the way, when I was little and living
in a rainless place, I would long for the clink

of rain on roof. Yesterday was my son’s fourth
birthday. We had a bouncy house, petting zoo,

piñata, stood around in a light drizzle and watched
the kids play, unaware of the crumbling world.

What if they are not ignorant but right? What stops
us from dropping our sorrow, the weight of concern

for the present, the future: the weight of regret?
After the presents had been opened, after my son

was dreaming his child-dreams—of rain? of playtime? —
after we put away the toys he’ll soon grow tired of, threw

away pounds of garbage, I thought of the children who
have no toys, who go to sleep hungry, or afraid of bombs

or beatings, children for whom a bedtime story is enough.
For my birthday this year, my parents asked what I wanted

and for weeks I thought of nothing but my wants. What I
chose doesn’t matter; by the time I got it I wanted something

else. But my dream-poem’s closing line was about pinecones
nestled in the rain-soaked earth, and the title was Happiness.

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