Sunday, March 3, 2024

wet grass at her feet

to see
a clothesline full
of clothes
in the cold breeze
is to see everything.
there it is.
all that you
remember
comes back to you
in the white
sheets,
those shirts, those
dungarees.
your mother
reaching up to the line
with another
clothespin
in her mouth.
the wet grass around
her feet.

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