Poems I Probably Won’t Write About My Stepfather
On Holding the Phone to Your Ear the Night Before You Die
So Your Half-Sister Can Read You a Poem
On Missing Your Last Breath Because I Had to Stop for Gas
Poem in Which My Mother Reminisces with the Funeral Director
About Meeting Him When He Was a Little Kid
How to Choose the Right Locally Sourced Wooden Urn
for a Former Forester
On First Walking into the Forbidden Sanctum of
Your Office, AKA, the Junk Room
On Reading Letters in Which You Pour Your Heart Out
to Your Estranged Boys
Poem in Which I Hide the Scissored Pictures of Sexy Women
from My Mother
On Boxing Up Your Boy Scout Badges and the Many Clippings
Extolling Achievements I Wish I’d Known About
On Finding a Heartbroken Letter from Your 2nd Wife
Your Two Youngest Boys Were Gorgeous Toddlers
and I’m Sad for All of Us
Thinking About Who Might Want Your Guns
What to Do with All the Cowboy Hats
On Shipping You to Your Children by First Class Mail
Wondering Why You Never Let My Mother
Drive Your Pickup Truck
So Your Half-Sister Can Read You a Poem
On Missing Your Last Breath Because I Had to Stop for Gas
Poem in Which My Mother Reminisces with the Funeral Director
About Meeting Him When He Was a Little Kid
How to Choose the Right Locally Sourced Wooden Urn
for a Former Forester
On First Walking into the Forbidden Sanctum of
Your Office, AKA, the Junk Room
On Reading Letters in Which You Pour Your Heart Out
to Your Estranged Boys
Poem in Which I Hide the Scissored Pictures of Sexy Women
from My Mother
On Boxing Up Your Boy Scout Badges and the Many Clippings
Extolling Achievements I Wish I’d Known About
On Finding a Heartbroken Letter from Your 2nd Wife
Your Two Youngest Boys Were Gorgeous Toddlers
and I’m Sad for All of Us
Thinking About Who Might Want Your Guns
What to Do with All the Cowboy Hats
On Shipping You to Your Children by First Class Mail
Wondering Why You Never Let My Mother
Drive Your Pickup Truck
Jennifer Stewart Miller holds an MFA from Bennington College and a JD from Columbia University. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Green Mountains Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Poet Lore, Raleigh Review, Sugar House Review, and other journals. She’s a Pushcart nominee and currently lives in New York.