I wrote
to my mother’s death
She was good to me.
I felt uncomfortable
with intimacy.
In that way my mother had
ruined life.
As if that message could lift
despair
I acted out of love.
It was spring.
We watched
what we wished for
cross.
~~~
Hachi Chuku is the Managing Editor for Nimrod International Journal. They are a Best of Net nominee and have work in The Shallot, Knee Brace Press, Mouthful of Salt, and more. Their chapbook Masquerading as a Gastropoda is forthcoming with Rockwood Press.
