Sunday, July 26, 2009

In memory of my Mom:



Looking at the table to keep the memory of it living:

There being no hedge or fence round time
you can go back, have what you like

you can be the child that was
dipping at the well of remembrance

you can still feel how it felt
as though you were still small

smell the soup
watch it ladled

taste the mutton with your nostrils now
all those people are still alive

some leaning back with their eyes shut
smiling

some speaking with their mouths full
laughing

and you are sitting in your mothers lap.

obeedúid~
26/july/09