As the title suggests, Chaos Theories draws on science in many of its poems, using the language and systems of the natural world as metaphor for the emotional world. Richard Peabody calls me, “a spy in the house of science,” and Alan Shapiro says, “Chaos Theories refashions insights and principles from the hard sciences into metaphors for what it means and feels like to be alive and conscious, needy and loving, in a universe ruled by time and change.” The poems here chronicle my early years of motherhood, the challenges of divorce, and my reckoning with my own childhood experiences.