Have you looked
into that face?
That face
looks into you.
She knows
her torch,
a burden,
but keeps
her vigil,
loyal
despite
your habits,
your forgetting.
Your turn
will come.
Her prayer
will be
your lungs.
First published on www.matthewsrosin.com, Facebook, and Twitter, July 4, 2018.
I’ve finished the manuscript for my memoir-in-essays, tentatively entitled Fatherhood Is Learning. The book gathers newly-revised versions of my essays that appeared in STAND Magazine and On Being, plus lots of new material that will appear for the very first time. Now to shop it around…
I’m quoted in the first “What Dads Really Want” box, where I reflect some of the everyday gifts hidden in plain sight that I now appreciate all the more since the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic.