The Cerebral Mum

The second assignment from the 30 Poems in 30 Days project. Writing about yourself…

“Write about an event in your life that happened within the past week. Take some time to think about the week and look for event that has some emotional meaning for you, but not so much that it would be painful for you to write about. Sometimes smaller moments have more meaning.”

Each afternoon
the swing the slide
before he sleeps

And in the park
each afternoon
girl not yet two

Her mother’s hair
skin, full lips bright
each afternoon.

We start to speak
smile, move away
obliged and small

He watches girl
we start to speak
my silent boy

I can’t explain
girl crying mine
we start to speak.

I say my name
then she says hers.

We start to speak
each afternoon.

Hmm. I don’t know if I like this one. I said yesterday’s was hard and I thought there was a specific reason but I think the specific reason is that I am a rusty, rusty woman. It feels very forced to me. Consciously limiting what to write, both the content and the form is difficult.

But I know it’s good exercise so I’m still not going to apologise.

Who knows, tomorrow I might like it.