During the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement.  With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an abrupt halt, he began writing about his life: stories about his childhood, memories of family, adventures that took him from coast to coast in the U.S., to Vietnam and Denmark.

In Season 3 of "Why Am I Telling You This?", C.M. reads what his father sent him in a series called "Letters From Pops".

During the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement.  With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an abrupt halt, he began writing about his life: stories about his childhood, memories of family, adventures that took him from coast to coast in the U.S., to Vietnam and Denmark.

In Season 3 of "Why Am I Telling You This?", C.M. reads what his father sent him in a series called "Letters From Pops".

During the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement.  With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an abrupt halt, he began writing about his life: stories about his childhood, memories of family, adventures that took him from coast to coast in the U.S., to Vietnam and Denmark.

In Season 3 of "Why Am I Telling You This?", C.M. reads what his father sent him in a series called "Letters From Pops".

During the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement.  With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an abrupt halt, he began writing about his life: stories about his childhood, memories of family, adventures that took him from coast to coast in the U.S., to Vietnam and Denmark.

In Season 3 of "Why Am I Telling You This?", C.M. reads what his father sent him in a series called "Letters From Pops".

During the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement.  With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an abrupt halt, he began writing about his life: stories about his childhood, memories of family, adventures that took him from coast to coast in the U.S., to Vietnam and Denmark.

In Season 3 of "Why Am I Telling You This?", C.M. reads what his father sent him in a series called "Letters From Pops".

During the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement.  With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an abrupt halt, he began writing about his life: stories about his childhood, memories of family, adventures that took him from coast to coast in the U.S., to Vietnam and Denmark.

In Season 3 of "Why Am I Telling You This?", C.M. reads what his father sent him in a series called "Letters From Pops".  

During the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement.  With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an abrupt halt, he began writing about his life: stories about his childhood, memories of family, adventures that took him from coast to coast in the U.S., to Vietnam and Denmark.

In Season 3 of "Why Am I Telling You This?", C.M. reads what his father sent him in a series called "Letters From Pops".

During the Covid-19 pandemic of 2020, C.M.'s father was suddenly forced into temporary retirement.  With his lifelong forward momentum brought to an abrupt halt, he began writing about his life: stories about his childhood, memories of family, adventures that took him from coast to coast in the U.S., to Vietnam and Denmark.

In Season 3 of "Why Am I Telling You This?", C.M. reads what his father sent him in a series called "Letters From Pops".     

Season Two of "Why Am I Telling You This?" concludes with a poem about the visible and the invisible, the mysterious and the ordinary, body and spirit, and the fleetingness of life.

Excerpted from How To Carry Soup: Poems, by C.M. Rivers (Homebound Publications).

"The Hands That Make Things" first appeared in IthacaLit: A Journal of Literature and Art. 

C.M. begins this poem by turning his attention to a small gathering of natural wonders that are often overlooked, then allows the poem to shift in tone to a diary entry written in second-person.