17. my mother – 2

my mother, worn

down by love’s curious

longings and 

this world’s repetitious

fears when

one teetering calf, 

slick new, clover crushed beneath,

should neutralize that.

my mother, pared down, 

probing mind, even,

fading in, out.

autumn sorrow

crisp and dry, scrapes 

across my heart.

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