Ever since the fire, my son\u2019s anger has gotten the best of him.
\nMy friend Priscilla thinks it\u2019s time I start hitting him back.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m conflicted: she knows pain. The pathology of it. The potential
\nit has to shape you, before other things get the chance.<\/p>\n
B, her youngest, and smarter than sand,
\njust told me about the rivers in the ocean,<\/p>\n
complete with their own banks, weeping willow trees, undergrads
\noaring open reflections with first their boats, then their paddles.<\/p>\n
She says that in the instant he swings, I should swing back,
\nso that the pain seems to come directly from his own wanting<\/p>\n
to inflict it. This both makes sense and is unimaginable to me,
\nas I watch him now, toe from room to room,<\/p>\n
like a soft wind, in a small jar,
\nwith its lid on.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
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