Mother

Discipleship

Mother
you have shown the doves
where and how to build their nests
in the temple eaves

I am the lost one
the generation
who did not learn to sew
the recipes of my grandmothers
are gone

I left that house.

Now you
must show me
the simple
weaving together
of the soul life.
Ellen Grace O'Brian from her book of poetry, The Moon Reminded Me