is a school day like every other
in the first week of the year.
Time isn’t real but still
it’s January, and scientists say
we’re gaining about sixty seconds
of sunlight even as the sun sets.
I wake up and feel closer to death
than the day before. I am a mother,
so I wait for my daughter at the bottom
of the stairs and I hold her hand
when crossing the street and when
we stop at the corner I run my fingers
over her ponytail like it’s my own hair.
She says there’s a cloud in the sky
that looks like a heart but I can’t see
what she sees. I am a mother
so when she is hungry I feed her
and when she asks me how to spell wolves
I explain how some nouns transform
in the plural. Man is men and tooth is teeth
and person who is murdered becomes people.
in the first week of the year.
Time isn’t real but still
it’s January, and scientists say
we’re gaining about sixty seconds
of sunlight even as the sun sets.
I wake up and feel closer to death
than the day before. I am a mother,
so I wait for my daughter at the bottom
of the stairs and I hold her hand
when crossing the street and when
we stop at the corner I run my fingers
over her ponytail like it’s my own hair.
She says there’s a cloud in the sky
that looks like a heart but I can’t see
what she sees. I am a mother
so when she is hungry I feed her
and when she asks me how to spell wolves
I explain how some nouns transform
in the plural. Man is men and tooth is teeth
and person who is murdered becomes people.
In memory of Renee Nicole Good, z’l, a poet and a mother
2 Responses
Thank you for posting. Such a sad time for our country and for Ms. Good’s family.
from david eberhardt facebook- response welcome 1941mireille@gmail.com b sure to watch podcast Where is Jonathan Ross
Questions those complicit in murder do not want to consider-much less print?-re Minneapolis shooting and guns: :
start w Thou shalt not kill ;
then, what kind of gun?; Who made it?;
then: ICE not arresting worst of the worst but also people who have worked here for 20 years just because they have not filled out papers?
Then. Media does not cover this (by in large presents the murderers point of view (out of fear?) Speaking of Media- do you have a fox news in yr area? Listen to them- they are complicit w murder . Is media capable of covering shootings?
Then, Is the FBI going to return the vehicle to Ms Good? Can the FBI or Ms Noem be charged with obstruction of justice?
Them, hopefully murderer ross’ CAREER IS OVER- MS GOOD’S IS!
Then, can we sue the murderers for all they are worth ?
Then Did Ross shoots from the side of the car into a window where there was a driver and a passenger (even a dog!)
Then, could he have walked away?
ALL OUR FINE MILITARY VETERANS:Tim McVeigh (Oklahom a City bombing), John Allen Muhammed (Beltway Sniper) , Kyle Rittenhouse (murders two protestors and is now a gun spokesman) and now machine gunner, Jonathan Ross- who plainly murders Rebecca Good! – shall we thank them for their serviece? Murderers all from a blind and violent country- trained killers.