Best New(A) Poems

What's new? They ask her.
She smiles, looking down, cradling the baby.
Everything is, she thinks to herself,
constant changing diapers, 2 a.m. feedings,
comforting the small cries.
They see the dark circles around her eyes,
the fact that she is exhausted and hasn't combed her hair.
What use to be purses,...

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