A Very Mary Variation
A Golden Shovel poem taken from a line of “Flare” –
“the voice of the child crying out of the mouth of the grown woman is a misery and a disappointment” where each word in this line starts a new line in an expanded poem inspired by this original line
Final Hours of a Family
The one who would silence the
voice of all others in the care decisions
of a loved one is
the very reason her own
child resents his mother for the endless
crying she allows his grandmother and seeks his way
out from under her overbearing control
of his life and new marriage as
the end of an era draws near, the
mouth of a grandmother now mute
of a grandfather now muted
the family once held strong now shattered by a
grown spoiled child who is anything but the
woman her mother would be proud of
is anything but a family leader seeking unity – is
a destroyer- a wrecking ball who allows her mother’s misery day after day after day
and refuses comfort measures for
a loving mother who always comforted her; what a disappointment and a shameful ironic twist of an ending
Common Threads 