To give my mom a perm?
and while we wait for the solution, pluck the stray chin hairs
and file her nails in the round-ish way she likes
Afterwards, can we please have just one more cup of tea with Aunt Mary, my would-be-mother
who would compliment the perm
and the coffee cake we baked earlier that morning
No shoo fly ---- out the door before daddy comes home
the late afternoon thunderstorm
that always washed away the woman-ness
just one more afternoon
capture a moment in time
before, like the lingering cigarette smoke
and the smell of Oil of Olay
my mama's gentle touch,
disappears.
please?
you have captured the essence of mom-ness....thank you
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