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The Hawthorn Robin Mends with Thorns Talking with Mary about 1972: like a needle through my 25-yearsolder breast my years thinner rib: 1972: a child-life away from my children: “but you couldn’t have been different from the way you were” but I would to have been different Out in a sailboat Out in a sailboat with the warden he says so-and-so weighs 95 lbs. now says she slept with him because he was kind when she was in prison She woke up hypnotized A wonderful boat She woke up walking with the homeless on a plank no red schlock rope new poems 7 ...

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