bFrom Arra Lynn Ross, a tender, generous, and generative extended poem centered on the experience of parenthood.b p What is learned I'll return for my son at school, at three thirty-eight, bells will ring run days over years. Using unpredictable syllabics, rhyme, and syntax, iDay of the Childi captures the sensation of altered time that accompanies a child's growth. Seasons come and go. A schoolboy becomes a dreaming infant becomes a five-year-old exploring metaphor for the first time becomes an ultrasound image, a frieze on screen. A mother cycles through her own often dissonant identities soother, watcher, blame-taker. And both mother and child assume another, significant role artistic collaborators. p For iDay of the Childi is a poem co-created by child and mother, offering a space in which each's stories, thoughts, words--unbound by Time time's delineations--tangle together. In which apartness--Oh indivisible divisible, the presence of another heart beating inside the mother's