"my good mother, // her mind a trail of crumbs / in a woods flocked with birds."
— Seibles, Tim (b. 1955)
Author
Work Title
Date
March, 2014
Metaphor
"my good mother, // her mind a trail of crumbs / in a woods flocked with birds."
Metaphor in Context
These days midlife
holds the jagged edge:
my nephew in prison,
a prisoner > friends insane
with work or sick
of trying to be loved,
my parents handing over their lives
like evidence: my good mother,
her mind a trail of crumbs
in a woods flocked with birds.
holds the jagged edge:
my nephew in prison,
a prisoner > friends insane
with work or sick
of trying to be loved,
my parents handing over their lives
like evidence: my good mother,
her mind a trail of crumbs
in a woods flocked with birds.
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Tim Seibles, "Mosaic," Poetry (March, 2014). <Link to the Poetry Foundation>
Date of Entry
02/28/2018
