A MOTHER'S LAMENT IN AUGUST

A Mother’s Lament in August
Shirley Moyer


He would have been
Aging
Bouncing
Audrey
On his ankle

He would have traded
the old Cadillac
for a pick up
Harley
or
BeeGee albums
autographed
framed
Or more
Billy Beer cans
to decorate
a dusty windowsill

He would have given
his guitar
plastic red picks
unread How To books
to Stephanie

Again,
he would rejuvenate the lawnmower
spare its doom
from a boneyard
of recycled, reworked
outlived
maintenance agreement,
again.

He would
have been
his Brother’s Best Man
his Sister’s spare shoulder
his Father's partner
and his Mother's reason to have faith
beyond the faith she thought she had.

He would have been
Fifty today
And I
Want to sit among the beer cans
On the windowsill
Until the melting dust
Pushes the sorrow away.

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