Impressionistic

Do I dare disturb the universe?
For I have known them all already, known them all -
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
Affectionate Ammi: Lines that Make Me Cry of the Day

I was massaging her head while she was going to sleep when she said, “Today my children are doing to me what I used to do to them.”

I hope that one day, when I’m a mother, I can be as loving and as endlessly patient and as necessarily strict as her.

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