Pink and Purple Flowers (CTG)
Pink and Purple Flowers
Mother's Day is here again;
the ads on TV make me ache.
I will not lift a receiver
or click a mouse to order
the purple-pink bouquet
you would have loved; the
colors sting me; a smear of purple
bluebells swaying under sycamores;
how you spoke of "Boo Bell Woods"
near your Garston childhood home;
always those "baby-talk" phrases,
and more so toward the end
as you regressed; still--
I would take you back,
even sad as you were then
still so delighted
to be taken out, treated
by your only son.
Christopher T. George