Kary Wayson is the author of the poetry collection American Husband, which received the Journal Award in 2009 from the Ohio State University Press, and the chapbook Dog & Me. In addition, her work has been included in The Best American Poetry 2007 and the 2010 Pushcart Prize anthology. Wayson lives and works in Seattle.

Photograph by Kelly O.

Sitting to the South of My Secondhand

by Kary Wayson

Sitting to the south of my secondhand
husband, just to the right of his ex-wife’s
geranium, I should look at what I’ve done.
How I took what I wanted to take
for free how loosely she let him come
to me, what I took from the shelf
in the fancy lobby, and coaxed to grow
as my only own. So much

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