Triolet
Time is one moment unfolding in all directions,
her glee as I snap a clean bedsheet above her head.
I ride waves of my daughter’s affections, rejections
while her moment in time unfolds in all directions.
She sails out of reach, but we’re tethered by DNA’s thread.
A child is a moment unfolding in all directions,
her glee as I snap a clean bedsheet above her head.
Laura Shovan is a children’s author, educator, and Pushcart Prize-nominated poet. Her chapbook, Mountain, Log, Salt, and Stone won the inaugural Harriss Poetry Prize. Her work appears in journals and anthologies for children and adults. Laura’s award-winning middle grade novels include The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary, Takedown, and the Sydney Taylor Notable A Place at the Table, co-written with Saadia Faruqi. Laura is a longtime poet-in-the-schools for the Maryland State Arts Council. She serves on the faculty of Vermont College of Fine Arts.
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