By sharing your understanding of how your mother became the rough-around-the-edges woman you saw during your childhood and young adulthood, you still offer her a space in the narrative. You leave room for speculation.
What Remains
after Han Vanderhart
Not the bowling alley. Not Videl Video.Not the Five & Dime, back wall lined with aquariums,
goldfish and guppies who ignore the...
Digitalis purpurea
Somewhere
I am not in motion
but held
by foxgloves
and June grey
granite peering over
asphalt curves
golden lines are
lanes and bumblebees
bloodspot blossoms
and a summer
not yet here
but not yet
there,...
