The Return

 Suddenly the window will open
and Mother will call
it's time to come in

the wall will part
I will enter heaven in muddy shoes

I will come to the table
and answer questions rudely

I am all right leave me
alone.
 Head in hand I
sit and sit.
 How can I tell them
about that long
and tangled way.


Here in heaven mothers
knit green scarves

flies buzz

Father dozes by the stove
after six days' labour.


No--surely I can't tell them
that people are at each
other's throats.

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