Saturday, July 24, 2021

the icy rope

i would watch
my mother, hang clothes in
the cold
march wind, her feet wet
in the grass.
breaking the ice
off the rope.
what else could she do
but press on.
somehow money would
arrive to pay
the electric, the gas,
to put shoes on our feet,
food in our bellies.
maybe one day, one
day down the road
there would be time to rest.

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