How nourished we are by old friends!
A burst of laughter at the dinner table
Echoes down the decades.
Roast pork, smoked turkey, rice and beans, apple pie.
M. remembering giving birth
A few months before me.
How our children invented long, fantastic role play,
Gave us quizzical looks when we interrupted them,
Saying it was time for peanut butter and jelly.
The now grown child quoting the rumor mill:
Sam Altman got fired for not telling his board
That AI had solved a math problem no human
Had been able to solve.
The grace of his wife’s hair. Our aging bodies giving us fits.
The promise to trade recipes. Silence outside.
Leaves down. Calls from family who couldn’t be there.
Praise for the dead. A racoon listening in a silent ditch.
Published by whitegirlmistakes
My memoir, WhiteWife/BlueBaby, is out from All Things That Matter Press! It's available on Barnes and Noble and Amazon and can be ordered from indie bookstores everywhere. (Please support indie bookstores!) With an MFA in Creative Writing from UMass, Amherst, my work has appeared in Children with Asthma, A Manual for Parents; The Voice Literary Supplement; Fairfield County Magazine; Multicultural Review and The Massachusetts Review. I am regularly quoted in area newspapers as spokesperson for a CT sex abuse survivors’ advocacy group. Before I retired, my day job was encouraging lively low-income high school students to prepare for college. Finally, I’ve taught memoir writing classes and now have readings from my memoir scheduled for 2024. Happy to do more!
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