Glover, Maggie

English

University of Montana

CutBank Volume 1 Issue 75 CutBank 75 Article 14 Fall 2011 On how we started measuring the years in illness Maggie Glover Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cutbank  Part of the Creative Writing Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits you. Recommended Citation Glover, Maggie (2011) "On how we started measuring the years in illness," CutBank: Vol. 1 : Iss. 75 , Article 14. Available at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cutbank/vol1/iss75/14 This Poetry is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in CutBank by an authorized editor of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact scholarworks@mso.umt.edu. M a g g i e  G l o v e rO n  h o w  w e  s t a r t e d  m e a s u r i n g  t h e  y e a r sI N  I L L N E S S E S  My  father came back to life so we kept moving.Back to Pittsburgh, on to West Virginia,I packed my heart pills and your methadone and we were off. I loved with a grape gum heart beneath the drop ceiling, waited all day for your cowboy boots to dust up the drive so we could get sick and sleep.We saw each other through mimosa eyes until our spirit fled like a thunderstorm, leaving the wet shape o f us on the back porch.My mother called 17 times before I answered, each ring like a bird hitting the window—  the sound o f an animal, almost home.28

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