Daughters and Mothers
On one of the poetry sites I read/ women writing poems/someone requested poems about mothers and daughters. Many many poems/moving and true about shoes and sadness and love and impossibility/mothers and being daughters. Very few poems to daughters.
Now, a daughter in law
even a granddaughter and I who loved
my son more than the word love
I didn't know although I am a daughter
my mother died a long time ago she will always
be my mother voice like Tallulah Bankhead
chain smoker born in Grand Forks North Dakota
my mother a novel I will never write
I didn't know until recently what it's like
to be able to love a daughter who is a daughter in law
and then this wild 2 year old girl.