Saturday, September 11, 2004

My mother's portrait

Today I feel like
how I remember my mother
Sitting drinking
cup after cup of coffee
black
Smoking, elbow on the table
smoke drifting up
reluctant to depart
Her eyes
focused on a point infinitely far
Some place in the past
or the future
or, perhaps
nowhere at all
All alone

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I really like this poem Tinne.
-kat