<html>
<head><title>3: Martha & Bill's Baby Scrapbook</title></head>
<body style="crisp edges, feathered black ink">
<p>Baby Comes Home
<img src="mart_new_mom.jpg"
ALT="image not found">
<p>Baby's First Tooth
<img src="joey_cuts_tooth.jpg"
ALT="image not found">
<p>Baby's First Haircut
<img src="joey_braveface.jpg"
ALT="image not found">
<p>Baby's First Steps
<img src="joey_big_boy.jpg">
ALT="image not found">
<a href="http://www.gazette.com/obits/joey-hall.html">
empty</a>
</body>
</html>
<html>
<head><title>5: Dinner</title></head>
<body>
<table bgcolor="burgundy chenille, fringe" width="
crevasse">
<tr>
<td align=left>Martha
</br></br>
</br></br>
<img src="fork_mouth_fork.jpg" ALT="">
</br></br>
</br></br>
</td>
<td>candlesticks, silver, wedding gift from materna
l parents; peas, withered, in silver serviette with ma
tching engraved serving spoon; steak, desiccated,
topped with grated yellow cheese (Bill will like); ma
shed potatoes in good china with hand-painted lov
ebirds; flames, cold and straight; Waterford, pinot, b
lack and heavy
</td>
<td align=right>Bill
</br></br>
</br></br>
<img src="fork_mouth_fork.jpg" ALT="">
</br></br>
</br></br>
</td>
</table>
</body>
</html>
These two poems are part of a five-part series called Homepages, 1–5, all of which were written in a variation of HTML code and focus on the lives of Martha and Bill Hall, whose marriage has been strained by the loss of their baby, Joey. Author Jenny O'Grady is director of alumni and development communications at University of Maryland, Baltimore County; she graduated from the University of Baltimore's Creative Writing and Publishing Arts MFA program in 2006. You can see more of her work at www.kineticprose.com.
<head><title>3: Martha & Bill's Baby Scrapbook</title></head>
<body style="crisp edges, feathered black ink">
<p>Baby Comes Home
<img src="mart_new_mom.jpg"
ALT="image not found">
<p>Baby's First Tooth
<img src="joey_cuts_tooth.jpg"
ALT="image not found">
<p>Baby's First Haircut
<img src="joey_braveface.jpg"
ALT="image not found">
<p>Baby's First Steps
<img src="joey_big_boy.jpg">
ALT="image not found">
<a href="http://www.gazette.com/obits/joey-hall.html">
empty</a>
</body>
</html>
<html>
<head><title>5: Dinner</title></head>
<body>
<table bgcolor="burgundy chenille, fringe" width="
crevasse">
<tr>
<td align=left>Martha
</br></br>
</br></br>
<img src="fork_mouth_fork.jpg" ALT="">
</br></br>
</br></br>
</td>
<td>candlesticks, silver, wedding gift from materna
l parents; peas, withered, in silver serviette with ma
tching engraved serving spoon; steak, desiccated,
topped with grated yellow cheese (Bill will like); ma
shed potatoes in good china with hand-painted lov
ebirds; flames, cold and straight; Waterford, pinot, b
lack and heavy
</td>
<td align=right>Bill
</br></br>
</br></br>
<img src="fork_mouth_fork.jpg" ALT="">
</br></br>
</br></br>
</td>
</table>
</body>
</html>
These two poems are part of a five-part series called Homepages, 1–5, all of which were written in a variation of HTML code and focus on the lives of Martha and Bill Hall, whose marriage has been strained by the loss of their baby, Joey. Author Jenny O'Grady is director of alumni and development communications at University of Maryland, Baltimore County; she graduated from the University of Baltimore's Creative Writing and Publishing Arts MFA program in 2006. You can see more of her work at www.kineticprose.com.
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