Dear Letters My Mother Wrote,
I don’t know how to write to you
the written, the records I’ve lost
of her thoughts ordered for keeping
entries of a mind, love, burden
twenty pages deep
how do I address you —
synapse between mother daughter
unavoidable trail
numbered
so we wouldn’t lose you?

Dawn Tefft | Mudlark No. 29
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