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bread and cupcake crumbs

Written by: womenslegacy
Published: November 27, 2011 -- Last Modified: November 27, 2011

bread and cupcake crumbs
by nancy hill
 
today I am thinking about
polka dots
birthday parties
babies that i love
but scarcely know
trajectories
unknown then
a mothers sister’s mother
loved me less than all her other mothers
in decades beyond remembrance
her toddler tentacles of charm
and distributed intelligence
ensnared me no less
caught
between daughters
one of blood and heart
one of heart and law
distance has impoverished
more than our poverty
the distance of heart is quantum
the insurmountable distance of mind
between father and daughter
without motherly intervention
spawned a gulf
where shadows of resentment flash beneath the surface
school and move en masse
amid bread and cupcake crumbs
nov. 27, 11
nfh

Categories: Blogging & WritingTags: Blogging & Writing, family, holidays, melancholy, Nablopomo, poetry

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