a mother

as if
merely
on leave
from that place
she never
once a mother
was

begins to write
stories

populated
by illiterate
men
and men
meeting
to her knowledge
in a misplaced
fog
that god
recalls
having
on hand
might his people
blame
randomly
his wife
on a childhood
disappearance
which exists

as a recollection
of sorrow
at birth
in a town
of vandals
and caricatures
with no need
for immediate
representation