Unveiling
By Gail Mazur
I say to the named granite stone, to the brown grass,
to the dead chrysanthemums, Mother, I still have a
body, what else could receive my mind's transmissions,
its dots and dashes of pain? I expect and get no answer,
no loamy scent of her coral geraniums. She who is now
immaterial, for better or worse, no longer needs to speak
for me to hear, as in a continuous loop, classic messages
of wisdom, love and fury. MAKE! DO! a note on our fridge
commanded. Here I am making, unmaking, doing, undoing.
Copyright Credit: Gail Mazur, "Unveiling" from Forbidden City. Copyright © 2016 by The University of Chicago. Reprinted by permission of The University of Chicago Press.
Source: Forbidden City (The University of Chicago Press, 2016)