...band names
guitar, children,
recipes, mandolin,
reading and travel stapled and taped
8 hands
I leave eight hands at home, not just six
I do take two with me.
I leave eight eyes at home, not only six
I take two with me.
Eight legs, eight ears, and four hearts
beating softly before dawn
I steal this from my slumber time,
so that I might better play laugh sing,
during the many hours of parenting
relating, and conferring.
I can barely recall, a time
Having ten hands, ten eyes and ears
five hearts beating softly before dawn,
in which these limbs and senses
were not part of my waking thoughts
and also the time from which
I wake.
Eight hands, eight eyes, four hearts,
ten, ten, and five I take along
softly before dawn.
