ANOTHER ANNIVERSARY OF MY MOTHER’S PASSING
Her joy becomes my joy. —
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
This June morning, flickering light and shadow
on the spread pages of my book
while somewhere above me in the arching
and waving branches of the beeches, one cardinal
keeps throbbing an unceasing song.
And the sky–did I mention the cloudless sky?
The softest blue, as if created
with the pastels of a master, then brushed across
with the gentlest sweep of her arm.
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Andrea Potos is the author of several poetry collections, most recently Marrow of Summer and Mothershell, both from Kelsay Books; and A Stone to Carry Home from Salmon Poetry. You can find her poems many places online and in print, most recently in Spirituality & Health Magazine, Braided Way, Buddhist Poetry Review, and Poetry East. She is actively working on a new collection of poems, generated from the epigraph on this poem, called “Her Joy Becomes.”
oh friend, such a beautiful tribute to your mother, and of course it makes me so happy to see the joy lines weaving through all that blue. Hugs to you, r
Gorgeous poem that spoke to me as I reckon with the loss and love of my mother too. 💙