Getting Older

"Sometimes you wander all day, the fog outside stalled at the tops of trees, refusing to rise higher and reveal the world you hope is still there, the one in which you're still a beautiful woman some beautiful man might helplessly move towards. And you remember how one looked at you the first time you undressed, how another didn't mind that you cried. Sometimes it's enough just to say their names, like a rosary, ordinary names linked by nothing but the fact that they belong to men who loved you."

"Getting Older" (Excerpt)

Kim Addonizio

Tell Me

BOA Editions, Ltd.

July 1, 2000

Heading Home

Everybody's home, Baby Girl . . . everybody's home.

This morning I choose to be thankful, for the twinkling constellations above my head, for the full moon in all of its celestial radiance, for the whisp of clouds above my head that will soon enough be the whisp of clouds above your head, and the night sky in the fleeting moments before twilight takes hold across our slumbering valley.

Before long the first rays of light will clear the mountaintops surrounding our valley and all of this will fade away . . . but hidden in the everlasting beauty of the dawn are the whispers of a new day.

Together We Fall Apart

Family do not let family die alone, Baby Girl. I will see you someday again in the clouds.

The hardest lessons to learn are the ones you learn alone.

Baby Girl (No Burden)

I will never ask more of you than you are willing to give. If this is the end then I will follow you - into the light or into the dark, no factor.

Together we fall apart - family do not let family die alone.

The Big Dude (You Know Who You Are)

Every waking moment is a gift when viewed from the proper perspective and I know you know how grateful I am.