Elizabeth Moura
Mother

an extract from “Assorted Visions of Winter”

mother at the well
she still thinks birdsong
makes a difference
and older trees understand
more than older people
she lowers her pale bucket
deeper than the bottom
and she doesn’t have the strength
to pull it up again.

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