My daughter calls for her cousin

from the backyard,

but she is a thousand miles away,

a distance she cannot fathom,

for just the other day

she and her cousin

flipped the couch cushions

into a rock pile

all by herself.

Best of the Net nominee, Rich Glinnen, has had his poetry featured on Rich Vos’s and Bonnie McFarlane’s podcast My Wife Hates Me, and is a mainstay at the Nuyorican Poets Café. His work can be read in various print and online journals, as well as on his Tumblr and Instagram pages. He currently has two cats, two kids, and one wife.