She Lived Like My Wonder

she lived like my wonder, my clan’s wonder she toil’d but laugh’d along our crook’d paths much tears cannot undo this loss, our loss ‘tis like when the goddes wip’d her footprints out of the eternal sands of our communal times who has seen mother since she left my clan so unannounc’d – she had put a mirage in her stead – the old homestead where she dish’d to every child is empty & calm & dead-silent who had done this to us? who bemourn her? where’s my resort? where’s is my soul’s calm?