Impossible Belonging
Impossible Belonging, Maya Pindyck’s third collection after Emoticoncert and Friend Among Stones, received the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry on the heels of her fellowships and grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, Poetry Society of America, New York’s Historic House Trust, and Abortion Conversation Projects.
BIRTHDAY
On the hottest day of summer, my mother & father
chase each other with meringue pies on paper plates.
I remember the smack of cream on my face
& crying because I never saw them so dangerous,
so inside their bodies like that: my mother
howling up the driveway as my father’s pie hits
the threadbare blue of her back. I try to hide
between two bikes in the garage, but their laughter
fills the sky & the air — & I am spared nowhere.
Reviewed by
Matt Sutherland
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