The Second EyeFirst published in Rivet 13, June 2005, in their “luck” issue. Also reprinted in Red Lights 3:1, January 2007, and on the Daruma Museum site in Japan in 2010. Also published in Skylark 5:2, Winter 2017, page 145. After you read this sequence, I invite you to read about Daruma dolls and their second eyes.
our wrinkled newborn sleeping in my arms— how lucky is the sun to have dawned this very day
home from the hospital— what are the chances for the baby’s first drive that all the lights would be green?
grandparents arriving from another country— in the name-the-baby book a four-leaf clover marks his page
another feeding— again we count his fingers and toes and they’re all still there
the baby asleep beside the Daruma doll— tomorrow we’ll paint its second eye
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