For my third collection of poems, I am using the working title Water and Plastic, thinking of these terms as environmental, biological, and cultural signs for growth, change, and destruction. The poems begin with personal and textual studies of hydrological spaces, such as the low-lying Takuu atoll of Papua New Guinea, the cities of New Orleans and Venice, and the Netherlands. When my family arrives in Rome September, my first child, a girl, will be fifteen months old. Being in the presence of her new life, envisioning the shores she will occupy in the future, will be central to this new work.