[Critique Group 2] My Submission for March 21st

[Abbie Taylor]

The following poem, which is pasted and attached, was a product of 
another Hadley poetry class assignment. The prompt was to write about a 
painting. I was inspired by the portrait of my mother on my kitchen wall.

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PORTRAIT OF MY MOTHER



One hot Arizona summer afternoon,
clad only in bathing suit,
ensconced in her favorite red armchair,
hands at her sides, relaxed,
as if not being painted,
she smiled at no one in particular,
gazed into space,
not at the television
blaring a 1960's soap opera.

Now, almost fifty years later,
I want to believe that in death,
she smiles at me
from my Wyoming kitchen wall,
but she was everything I'm not,
a perfectionist, pretty, witty,
and most important,
she could see better than me.
Would she have chosen my life's path?

-- 
Abbie Johnson Taylor, Author http://abbiescorner.wordpress.com
http://www.abbiejohnsontaylor.com
abbie at mysero.net
Order my new memoir at http://www.abbiejohnsontaylor.com/memoir.htm
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