Layer Cake metaphor

The opposite of hunger
The Handmade Doll From the Museum Shop … Meets our Dog

With birthday money,
I buy the one with pigtails
brown skin
white apron over her gingham dress
holding a pet duck.
When Eli Turned Two

Before, as if he hadn’t heard,
my memo slowly fluttered down. The words
which bid him to obey
would float above his brain all day.
Dog Birthday

a long time ago
i chewed you out
for chewing my shoe