four years after my father died of our heart condition.
linda harris dolan
"and my cousin said, linda, you’re still grieving your dad.
and my cousin said, linda, you’re writing about us.
and my uncle said, they teach us in counseling:
when you have a heart patient, you have a depressed patient.
and i said, i don’t even know what i’m upset about."
in the bones.
linda harris dolan
“that it’s not below my sternum, between my breasts,
in a cavity filled with organs and to-do lists?”
"And then the parts of her body – as she bent over the insects in the grass –
Appeared to the insects in the grass as holy skies"
