Babies build with blocks
only to knock them down.
They don’t circle their creation
or ask for admiration.
Instead, they giggle
when the tower crashes,
enjoying the process
more than the outcome.
Babies have so much to learn.
Like peekaboo doesn’t
make a person disappear.
And poop goes in the potty.
But somehow, they know
to simply start over
when it all falls down.
Jacqueline Jules is the author of Manna in the Morning (Kelsay Books, 2021), Itzhak Perlman's Broken String, winner of the 2016 Helen Kay Chapbook Prize from Evening Street Press, and Smoke at the Pentagon: Poems to Remember (Bushel & Peck, 2023). Visit her at www.jacquelinejules.com
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