Friday, February 24, 2023

Pond's Cold Cream

even after having seven
children
and two
miscarriages,
and enduring
an abusive husband,
and subsequent divorce,
not to mention
excommunication
from the church
because of it,
my mother never gave up.
she had a thing
for Pond's
cold cream.
each night
she'd be lying there
with two circular slices
of cucumbers covering
her eyes,
and her face covered
in a slick 
layer of creamy white.
she was very optimistic.

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