One Poem
by Emily Adams-Aucoin
The Iridescent Net
Our daughter is the she
about which
we are always speaking—
who we’re constantly
referring to,
even and especially
when we’re not referring to
anything. Her name
is a great, unending
conversation
about what it means for us
to be alive:
how stuck we are,
both alive and together,
and how wonderful it is
to be kept in this way.
Emily Adams-Aucoin is a writer whose poetry has been published in literary magazines such as Electric Literature’s “The Commuter,” Meridian, Identity Theory, North American Review, and Colorado Review. She’s a poetry editor for Kitchen Table Quarterly, and you can find her on social media @emilyapoetry