Soma

General anxiety over

being an adequate

mother and good wife.

Depressed over changes

in her body

after pregnancy.

For the first few months,

he went to doctors,

expecting something neurological.

He waited for her to leave,

for the door to click

back into the jamb.

Maybe hurting others

was the only way

for him to feel anything.

Maybe someday someone

would do to him

what he’d done to others.