Vocabulary
Today, our daughter learned the word
homeostasis and all the other
synonyms of physiological sameness—
A steady palm and a treat, the dog
knows to stay. Even when I round
the corner, I imagine movement
only in his eyes as he waits for the OK.
We have been stable—now in our
longest duty station, we still don’t
call this home. When will we be going
home? and we mean visiting parents.
Then, we also talk of what we refer
to as our forever home. Our daughter
wants land for chickens and a pony.
Well, we’ll see. I collect bubble wrap
and tissue paper for a move three years
from now. This place when be a decade
of our daughter’s past by then.
Cover photo by Bernadetta Watts
