& the story of baby is this:

She told my grandmother on the phone,
Sometimes—they’re just too happy.

if I split / a word in half, send it // across borders, if it finds / a suffix, and transforms /
to meaning: in my mouth

He did not tell me he eyed the new satellite /
and imagined rolling him in the /
valleys of his fingers.

Given a bridge over a tributary.

No one wants to / be reminded of / the brutal beauty / of becoming.