A Mother's Nature

Forced exertion-

Ever since I did recollect

The change from outward nature

to rough and tender attachments

Other dangers enough

to your home, country, friends

Neither time nor life to be called too hard...

We shall begin to say,

when a slight division of

pen and half fallen sounds

could have finished you:

woman and verse,

memory and proverbs

-- Dorian Blue, 2016