When Mother
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When Mother was away, a mildew crept over her shoes. Like children, they were afraid to cry out, but obeyed their last order and stayed in their lines in the dark. And they do not remember who they were before they were alike, but they do know to draw back into themselves, because obedience will not have mattered, when Mother opens the closet door.
Lola Haskins
Lola Haskins’s latest book of poems is Desire Lines: New and Selected Poems(BOA Editions) Her work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Christian Science Monitor, London Review of Books, Beloit Poetry Journal, Georgia Review, Southern Review, and has been broadcast on NPR and BBC.
