I Stop Writing the Poem by Tess Gallagher

I stop writing the clothes to fold the clothes.  No matter who lives or who dies, I'm still a woman. I'll always have plenty to do. I bring the arms of his shirt together.  Nothing can stop our tenderness.  I'll get back to the poem.  I'll get back to being a woman.  But for now there's a shirt, a giant shirt in my hands, and somewhere a small girl standing next to her mother watching to see how it's done.