untested cough
and ague subside
while somewhere else
an aged woman coughs
into thin air
she is still my mother
even as isolation
deprives our shared breath
even as my voice weakens
against the strain of distance
Categories: Poetry
Poetry
Passover 2022
another departure sand storm and winds change on every horizon slow forward let go let us go lets go toward somewhere else trudge or gallop fasten memory to message onward into story