Dawn Bruce
My Mother
She hovers in the background
of my steel-cold days,
releasing an unease
in a flutter of memories.
I sense the disregard I dealt her
in her own time of widowhood.
She was dove-soft and silent,
her pain hidden
like a grain of sand
and it worries at the hard shell
of my new consciousness.
I can only offer flowers
to a marble headstone
and pray for forgiveness.
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Dawn Bruce
is a widely published Australian poet of free verse and haiku living in
a Sydney high rise apartment with a view to the Blue Mountains.
Ginninderra Press published Dawn's first collection of free verse and
haiku, Stinging the Silence in November 2002 and her second collection Tangible Shadows, late 2005. email: Dawn Bruce
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