Every month or so they come,
Mom quietly, Dad trying to be nice.
Last night he had me slivering cashews.
He wanted them precisely sliced
but I kept dropping them.
Dad raged about my clumsiness
and the cold air coming from an open
door and window. Mom slipped outside
the sliding glass and closed it, stared at me
without reproach, waiting to be let back in.
Penelope Moffet’s most recent chapbook is Cauldron of Hisses (Arroyo Seco Press, 2022). Her poems appear in Eclectica, ONE ART, Calyx, Sheila-Na-Gig and other literary journals. A full-length collection of her poetry will be published by Sheila-Na-Gig Editions in 2026.
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