Suzanne Buffam is the author of two collections of poetry, Past Imperfect, which won the 2006 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and The Irrationalist, a finalist for the 2011 Griffin Prize. Born and raised in Canada, she lives in Chicago.
He worries that his wife has her mother’s hypochondria. She worries that she has her mother’s rheumatoid arthritis. They worry that her father has his father’s sclerotic arteries. She worries that her...