Lilacs in the Snow. Mother's day, May 2014. Afraid the blooms would freeze, I brought a large lilac bouquet inside.
Mother Rite 2010
For my Mother
For a good while, I ignored my
mother’s stories, but she whispered them
over and again from her spirited
lips to my sleeping ears in dreams,
reminding me of ways that in life,
she stitched the Mother rite into my body,
threaded it through my brain,
embroidered me with stories of
women’s lives, struggles, victories.
She clothed me in a patchwork,
cut from the cloth of their aprons
and wove me into the tapestry of
our mingled family heritage until
I understood I was one of them.
This poem is Copyrighted by Ruth Zachary © 2012, From Theories of Relativity, by Ruth Zachary, published by Xlibris, and available through Amazon. Stories, letters and poems about family. 350 pages, with 20 photo montage illustrations.
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