the moving finger writes, and having writ moves on...
--Khalil Gibran
My mother quotes Gibran. She sends her love
the only way she knows, the way a lark
trills, as if compelled to sing above
the brooding clouds, the cluttered, growling dark.
She throws some words against the wall, a cell
a dozen layers thick with paint and grief;
my words bounce back, become a copper bell
wringing in some new bright day’s relief.
Her love is absolute. The universe
expands a little to contain the shock
it registers. And continents reverse
their shame-ward course. The moon sinks in its track.
This isn’t what I mean. I meant to say
that I was glad she wrote to me today.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
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