Survivors

We left mother in her bright cube

We left mother in her bright cube

And walked into the August evening.

She was alone, but strangers would lift

And move her on humming wheels.

Night streaked the milk-white sky

With purple sashes, swagged clouds.

The trees she climbed

Continued in their starry fields.

Patrick Kehoe

(From Its Words You Want, published by Salmon Poetry)

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