Milk and Honey

"father. you always call to say nothing in particular. you ask what i'm doing or where i am and when the silence stretches like a lifetime between us i scramble to find questions to keep the conversation going. i come from the same aching blood. from the same bone so desperate for attention i collapse in on myself. i am your daughter. i know the small talk is the only way you know how to tell me you love me. cause it is the only way i know how to tell you."

I wish I enjoyed this as much as everybody else, however I found this collection quite underwhelming. I might not be a modern poetry kind of person, who knows. There were a handful of poems I found beautifully written and moving (like the one I quoted), but the rest were simply not compelling enough for me.