[Critique Group 1] Sally's June submission

[Sally Rosenthal]

Sitting in the dark at four in the morning

With an audiobook to fill the empty hours,

I think of my no-nonsense British mother 

Who faced old age and grief head-on with cups of milky tea

And the printed company of Rosamunde Pilcher and P. D. James 

To Link her to the long-ago past of parents, greengrocers, and village
halls. 

Victory gardens, ration books, and nights spent in air-raid shelters

Taught her early that life was fragile and unfair but 

still worth living with fortitude, humor, and faith.

Picking up the invisible steel thread that binds generations to one another,

I put the kettle on and continue reading as dawn approaches.

 

 

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