“Yesterday morning, root canal. That night,
a power failure. How lovely:

throwing up by candlelight.”
There are so many wonderful

titles for poems!
“Straw Votes on Burning Issues.”

“May Divorce Be with You.”
“Throwing Up by Candlelight.” The more I hear

my students’ lives, the more I understand
this game of theirs—of ours, for I do it

too...