By Georgina McKay Lodge

Featured Art by Glenna Parry

Annoyed at rocks
in shoes
in laundry
in little piles at dinner,
she has placed a box
in the hall.

            -> Leave rocks here

Hold my rock,
her son says
when they are out,
and squats down
to select another.

            Be my rock

The smooth
pebbles,
dove-colored,
worn to wisdom,
she will gladly
carry home, but

his favorite find is
the jagged
saw-toothed
ugly rock,

scraped knee
stung by a bee
broken-armed
heart-choked rock.

Of course
she will carry that one too;
to the end of the world
she would carry it.

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Georgina McKay Lodge is from Oberlin, Ohio and currently resides in Copenhagen, Denmark, where she performs as a classical violist and violinist.