second week
of the new
year christmas
lights still lit
on the porch
I walk the
bedtime walk
in the dark
corridor
back and forth
past my pa-
pa playing
piano
piani-
ssimo as
the baby
babbles he
smiles without
looking up
I say I
liked that song
Photo by Jeffrey Zeldman
Wendy Chin-Tanner is the author of the poetry collection Turn (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014) and co-author of the graphic novel American Terrorist (A Wave Blue World). She is a founding editor at Kin Poetry Journal, poetry editor at The Nervous Breakdown, staff interviewer at Lantern Review, and co-founder at A Wave Blue World. Born and raised in NYC, she was educated at Cambridge University, UK and now lives in Portland, OR.
