Michael Tells

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    Being a parent is a form of leadership. . . . Parents make a mistake, along with leaders of organizations, when they are unwilling to recognize the power inherent in the positions they occupy and when they are unwilling to use this power. . . . I do not mean a figure who is irrational, autocratic, or sadistic. I mean leaders who have the strength of character to stand up for what they believe.
    —Abraham Zaleznik. In Support of Families, ed. Michael W. Yogman and T. Berry Brazelton, ch. 8 (1986)

    I concentrate.
    My books hypnotize each other.
    Jarrell tells Bishop to stare
    at the spot. Tate
    tells Plath she’s going under.
    Eliot remembers his long lost mother....
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)