Grant Quackenbush

What He Said When I Put Him to Bed

Some nights, lying on my back
and staring up at this popcorned ceiling
in the dark, I’ll think about the date
I didn’t ask her out on, and how she has a kid now
who’s fifty–five and takes care of her.

Grant Quackenbush is a skateboarder from San Diego and is currently a first–year MFA student in poetry at the University of California, Irvine.