Mama
This one takes me right back
to the day of my mama's funeral --
Lewis playing "Amazing Grace,"
sitting there in a kitchen chair
at the edge of her beloved garden.
The one place
in all this endless brown dryness
where there was color and life.
That's what her garden was -- an amazing grace.
©Mary Lee Hahn, 2016
One of my all time favorite, favorite songs. And I think you have captured perfectly the "graces" we are given on a daily basis! I love this one!
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ma says there'll be no baseball
or fishin in the creek
'til after i play my violin
she tells me to take a bath
scrub my fingernails extra good
get all that dirt from around the corners
everyone's comin' over
an' she wants me to perform
and then she dresses me up
in tight collared shirt
and stiff Sunday shoes
sits me on this hard kitchen chair
hot August sun beatin' down
on the back of my neck
and i scrape away
while the worms I collected last night
listen from their seats
in the can on the back porch
(C) Carol Wilcox, 2016
Oh Mary Lee and Carol - how do you DO this? This photo is absolutely alive - and I love reading both and blending them in my head somehow too. My favorite song too - already requested for my funeral. xo
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