Summary

In "Rose Has Hands," the speaker's phone autocorrects many of the words and sentences she tries to type. When she is writing something serious, the phone changes the words, making the message silly. Yesterday, the speaker's daughter asked her about kidnapping. The speaker texted her husband about it, but the phone autocorrected the message. She wonders "what truth" she can tell her daughter, when she understands so little (23).

In "At the End of Our Marriage, in the Backyard," the speaker and her husband let the lawn grow tall. They do not mow down the wildflowers. The honeybees move in. They make their children wear shoes outside so they do not get stung. At the end of the summer, they sit in the grass together.

In "If I could set this to music," the speaker wonders how she might set her poem to music...