• Love
• Mary Weems (bio)

I keep trying to get him to take herbal pillshe has no interest in

worry daily about places in his arteriesforced open by man-placed mesh

each winter I buy him gloveshe never wears

nights I wait till he’s fast asleepmemorize his snoring patternskiss his headtake off his glassesclean, then put them where I knowhe’ll reach for them

pray each day he’ll outlive meso I don’t have to rememberwhat it was like to be alonein the dark. [End Page 240]

Mary Weems is a poet, playwright, author, performer, imagination-intellect theorist, and social/cultural foundations scholar. Weems is the author of thirteen books, including Blackeyed: Plays and Monologues (Brill/Sense, 2015) and Writings of Healing and Resistance: Empathy and the Imagination-Intellect (Peter Lang, 2012). Both of her books of poems, An Unmistakable Shade of Red and the Obama Chronicles (Bottom Dog, 2008) and For(e)closure (Main Street Rag, 2012), were finalists for the Ohioana Book Awards. In 2015, Weems received the Cleveland Arts Prize’s “Emerging Artist Award in Literature.” She has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

• 爱
• 玛丽·韦姆斯（生物）

我一直试图让他服用对他没有兴趣的草药

每天都在担心自己的动脉被人造网打开的位置

每年冬天我给他买他从来不戴的手套

晚上，我一直等到他快睡着，记住他的打patterns模式，亲吻他的头，摘下干净的眼镜，然后放到我知道他会伸手去拿的地方

每天祈祷他会比我长寿，这样我就不必记住在黑暗中独自一人的感觉。[结束页240]

玛丽·威姆斯（Mary Weems）是一位诗人，剧作家，作家，表演者，具有想象力的理论家和社会/文化基金会学者。Weems是13本书的作者，其中包括《Blackeyed：戏剧和独白》（Brill / Sense，2015年）和《治疗与抵抗的写作：移情与想象力》（Peter Lang，2012年）。她的两本诗集，《红色的鲜明阴影和奥巴马编年史》（底犬，2008年）和《封（e）封》（Main Street Rag，2012年）都是俄亥俄纳书奖的决赛入围者。在2015年，Weems获得了克利夫兰艺术奖的“文学新兴艺术家奖”。她还获得了手推车奖提名。