cradled bijou finally your head resting on my hip bone cradled between my jeans and my t shirt we slept like a puzzle that night like interlocking states highways for veins blood traffic crossing counties and countries across the river beneath the ocean of wildfire that is my dreams i barely slept i drove all night trying not to rock the cradle i wanted you to sleep perfectly forever right where you were 021009 ... crOwl i remember taking photographs of you naked with our first child. we lit the room with candles. you spread your hair like a blanket over your growing breasts. you put your hands under your belly and while you waited for the click of the camera you felt your unborn daughters foot pressing into your fingers like a butterfly resting on a flower. 060206 what's it to you? who go blather from