Carol Dorf: I Need to Learn

Photo: Joanna C. Valente

Meditation on the Mask (II)

The heritage

quilters are home alone, sewing

hospital masks.

Their show cancelled. Our event

calendars transformed. Monday.

My calendar pops

up to remind me of a phone

visit. I miss touch.

My backyard grows more familiar,

though I need to learn its names.

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Carol Dorf has three chapbooks in print, "Given," (Origami Poems,) "Some Years Ask," (Moria Press) and "Theory Headed Dragon," (Finishing Line Press). Her poetry also appears in "Unlikely Stories," "Shofar," "About Place," "Great Weather For Media," "Slipstream," "The Mom Egg," "Sin Fronteras," "Heresies," "Feminist Studies," "Scientific American," and "Maintenant." She is poetry editor of Talking Writing. She is interested in the intersections between poetry, disability, and science.