ache

she was sitting at table
and had been talking for some time
when she meandered
to the topic of her mother

who was a wonderful woman
she said and said this
she didn't know how to say this

only that her mother was a tiny little thing
and very refined
and knew shakespeare down to the footnotes

and her mother
had advised her to pray
always to pray
she was beginning to understand

sitting at table
she needed to say all this
her mother was a wonderful woman
who advised her
to always pray
she was beginning to understand

she couldn't say it enough