Nicole Mauro

Letter R

1. Remember when she was a fetus
2. turning
3. squares
4. of the Rubik’s cube? Mother
5. on the bed, worsted
6. by the swallow, by the birth
7. of resolution,
8. that gaping, gaping
9. hollow? On the bed, swaddle. Her
10. eyes
11. were
12. left and right
13. Xs. It was so
14. awesome, this tactile example we had
15. of the consequence of
16. resolvability. What she could eat, first-
17. take. Touch
18. her
19. exactly. There, there and
20. there. Awesome. Those holes
21. on her face.