DPF / Salter

For home, from poetryfoundation.org.

from Home Movies: A Sort of Ode / by Mary Jo Salter

Here

she’s happy, teaching us to dye
the Easter eggs in it, a Grecian
urn of sorts near which—a foster
child of silence and slow time
myself—I smile because she does
and patiently await my turn.

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