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My mom gets the last
word in this section

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of poems, which feels right.

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She often does in real life too.

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It's called "Piano."

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I held him together as
long as I could, she says.

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He stopped working,
stopped coming upstairs.

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He was like tissue paper
coming apart in water,

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like smoke in my hands.

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It had nothing to
do with you, baby.

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You left when you had to.

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I met a woman once who worked on
pianos, said it was a hard job:

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the tools, the leverage,
the required ear.

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I love it, she said,
but it's brutal.

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The second I step away, it's
already falling out of tune.

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