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Child, young mother

old mothers singing

old, old mother songs.

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Tea harvest -

their mothers' songs

in the leaves.

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Hey Mom! Lookit this!
pebbles
... and remnants.

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Humming
dancing with her son
... dances in the sun.

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At the window
her shadowed womb traced
... in blue twilight.

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Things on edges:
a stalking cat
... mother and child parted.

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Pleas
and distant answers -
robins worry in the rain.

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The heaven
of a mother's voice -
the hell of its memory.

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She tender loves
tender dreams -
she tenders life.

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The call of light -
clinging to skirts
begging the nest of home.

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Свет манит -
цепляясь за юбки
умоляясь остаться у гнездо.

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(Inspired by iliveinoctober at Flickr)

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Of far womb
the breast of day
too sweet to share.

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(Inspired by iliveinoctober at Flickr)

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Sanctuary, stew and stain
of forgotten womb
peeling, folding away.

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Brothers of Clenched Hand
your bent nurses drying -
blood burns but once.

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