303 College Avenue Fuhrman

1

After she dies, your mother moves back
into your childhood home.

2

Is there another mother who has always lived in this house?
Has she always been here, digging holes for crocus bulbs
or sorting papers at her desk in the den?

4

You are the age she was the minute before she died.
Your glasses reflect clouds in the shape of a word

5

It’s a language neither of you understand.
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