Matthew Borczon

a boy

just broke

my 18

yr old

daughters

heart for

the first

time

she says

she’s afraid

she will

never sleep

again and

I hear

her cry

in the

next room

until sleep

finally comes

in the

end it’s

me who

is up

all night

thinking

about all

the plastic

horses and

Barbie dolls

I fixed

over the

years all

the jewelry

I untangled

back when

you believed

my love

and patience

and glue

could fix

everything.

(For Hannah)

Matthew Borczon is a poet and navy sailor from Erie, pa. He has published four books of poetry; A Clock of Human Bones through Yellow Chair Review Press, Battle lines through Epic Rights, Ghost Train through Weasel Press and, new this month, Sleepless nights and Ghost soldiers through Grey Boarders press. He publishes widely in the small press. When he is not writing, he's raising four children with his wife of 20 years.