Love in Two Houses

A divorced child’s lament

Mimi Weisbord. Two Houses. 1975. Oil on linen. 24 x 30 in. Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. ©Estate of Mimi Weisbord

Two Houses is a newsletter of stories about art, feminism, grief, and Time excavated from the Soho loft where I grew up. Posts are free and illustrated with the work of my long-divorced parents, the painters Mimi Weisbord and Lennart Anderson.

Love for them 

    was always so disabling. 

Love for him 

    betrayed her. 

Love for her

    freed him to give me away. 

I held onto them with my fingers and toes, 

    and still, they shook me off. 

They looked past me. 

They didn’t mean to

    always see each other.