Seated one, loved by the lavishing comband fingers of another woman demon-strating how attention and technique coalesceinto art. Where to gowhen the mother is gone. All occupations form to replace her. What relief to be a girl again for an hour, beneath the practiced wrists of her avatar. Paula Bohinceis the author ofThe ChildrenandIncident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods. Her poems have appeared in theNew Yorker, theNew York Review of Books, Poetry, Granta, theNation, and elsewhere. Seated one, loved by the lavishing comband fingers of another woman demon-strating how attention and technique coalesceinto art. Where to gowhen the mother is gone. All occupations form to replace her. What relief to be a girl again for an hour, beneath the practiced wrists of her avatar. Paula Bohinceis the author ofThe ChildrenandIncident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods. Her poems have appeared in theNew Yorker, theNew York Review of Books, Poetry, Granta, theNation, and elsewhere. | Swallows And Waves by Paula Bohince, Paperback | Indigo Chapters