Next, we have Mad Napping.

Yeah, so by way of background, when I was on... rattlecast before I wrote or I read a pantoum that was also an elegy to my mother.

And so this is a companion piece.

And actually in the book, they end up being on facing pages.

They're both pantoums and they both have 24 lines.

So your readers will be familiar with pantoms, I imagine.

But for those who aren't, it's a Malaysian form.

Um, let's read the title poem next, uh, from the chapbook.