Mom End
Mom you mend
No end
History's tonic
Histrionic gavel
On my head like unravelled
Litany
Of half-love
All over now
Older then than now
Long ago went along
With plan to inconceive
A baby half-cast
Of cries laughs
Last and not but least
Are we still in a moment
Of mom end
To never revisiting
The other end
Where I'd find you
Feasting on my flowers
And you, mom
Stir the calm
Trepidation in gauging
Gaze gouging
And always then as
Always now you
Disavow
But that homemade
Bench swing from which
Your warlocks licked
My cheek
And gave me a rub
As never plays doctor
But closes eyelids with black
Rose pedals
And raises the spectre
Of your many lectures
On the graces of falling
Bone
Cold
Silencer
As well
This fallen-into-child well
Will give such a hug that scrapes
And lacerates
Even hates
It is not fair
To give the chair to a child's
Imaginary murderer
But what then were you
Are you
To do? Today?
Too much? Too blew?
Two minds?
To hold? Toehold? Towed away?
Told to go? Too many ways?
Too sadly say
And I lie in my head of hay
As on my bare
Stomach, staring into cold
Ceramic tiles
Where remnants of you, mom,
Have dropped and halved
Like tiny dried up
Seedpods
But I have sworn testimony
From the swarms
Of dead gone by
At the speed of black light
They will swear on a stack
Of empty promises
That, yes, they saw me
Drum my collie's ears
But that my hands at that
Precise moment were the hands
Of a grown woman
And maybe they can knock
Doubt back
Into shadow's hold
So that my slavery to circuits
Encircled and seen to be
Fucked
Beyond any redemption
Will at last return to the sea
To be led in thick mist
Of the most resistant
Strain of hope
And one maybe day
Our love will brave the rocks
Below cliff below sea
The ocean red real with
What I feel in you and over
Too
And through
Mom,
Through.
By R P Webster
February 15, 2007
Submitted: June 08, 2007
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