Swallows and Waves in Bloomington, MN

Seated one, loved by the lavishing comb and fingers of another woman demon-
strating how attention and technique coalesce into art. Where to go when the mother is gone.
All occupations form to replace her.
What relief to be a girl again for an hour,
beneath the practiced wrists of her avatar.
Paula Bohince
is the author of
The Children
and
Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods
. Her poems have appeared in the
New Yorker
, the
New York Review of Books
,
Poetry
Granta
Nation
, and elsewhere.