By Andrea Brady, from a work in progress. Brady’s most recent book is The Strong Room (Crater Press).

There is a bird that mimics the car alarm

I nearly fall asleep at the table

My husband is covered in the ash
of work and I know his interests
only by the bumps and depressions

Somewhere my family is eating
turkey and debating uranium one and Benghazi
as saltwater seeps through the pavement in Miami