What of the neighborhood homes awash
In a silver light, of children hunched in the bushes,
Watching the grown-ups for signs of surrender,
Signs that the irregular pleasures of moving
From day to day, of being adrift on the swell of duty,
Have run their course? O parents, confess
To your little ones the night is a long way off
And your taste for the mundane grows; tell them
Your worship of household chores has barely begun;
Describe the beauty of shovels and rakes, brooms and mops;
Say there will always be cooking and cleaning to do,
That one thing leads to another, which leads to another;
- Excerpt from The Continuous Life by Mark Strand
Taking it's name from a line in the poem The Continuous Life by Mark Strand, Tell The Children by Andrea Geremia tells the story of a birth of a family.
Signed copy. Edition of 100 signed and numbered copies only, out of print rare handmade book.
Some handling wear to this copy and faint crease to one corner, overall near fine.