(check)

.

I check my email again
four light years
from the nearest star

,

Deneb my lost century

.

starlight
the unidentified
weapon

.

(starlight)

.
.

starlight
once
again
falling
impossibly
far

.

Frogpond 35.2

.

December 4: Your mother should know

starlight
what happened before
my mother was born

 

 

*

 

moonlight
looking up the answer
in my mother’s face

 

 

 

*

sunlight
replanting the flowers
from my mother’s garden

 

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Happy birthday, Mom … have a wonderful day.