04-04-2014, 03:04 PM
Helping my mother move out of the family home
Two flights of stairs
and who'd have thought she'd bother
moving after all these years, "without your father
I just don't need the space and there's
the lawn, the boiler, keeping up on stuff."
I've got the heavy end, her old couch friction-burns
my palms as my brother
guides around the turns
then two more trips - 2 lamps an "antique plate",
my mother whispers through the psalms
(She got it down at Kmart for $1.88)
until my brother cries -enough-
My mother calms,
"Take a break, after all it's hot."
On the concrete stoop we drink a beer
and stare at ants that march around the gate.
She told me once - an ant can lift 10 times his weight
But that's OK, they don't look like they weigh a lot.
Two flights of stairs
and who'd have thought she'd bother
moving after all these years, "without your father
I just don't need the space and there's
the lawn, the boiler, keeping up on stuff."
I've got the heavy end, her old couch friction-burns
my palms as my brother
guides around the turns
then two more trips - 2 lamps an "antique plate",
my mother whispers through the psalms
(She got it down at Kmart for $1.88)
until my brother cries -enough-
My mother calms,
"Take a break, after all it's hot."
On the concrete stoop we drink a beer
and stare at ants that march around the gate.
She told me once - an ant can lift 10 times his weight
But that's OK, they don't look like they weigh a lot.