Lucy (for Emma)
Writer named Lucy
all writers could be named Lucy
up on a hill
white writerly house
well porched, overlooking
fields of purple and yellow wild flowers
a sprawling poem
two days ago she thought she was
dying so Holly her partner
took her to the hospital where the doctor
said, "We have to take out
your appendix." "Can you
take out my table of contents too?"
she requested.