to the late jane bowers stoneman on her 90th birthday

to the late jane bowers stoneman on her 90th birthday

hey there, mom
happy birthday in the great wherever

and here’s hoping you are healed and free
and in the company of some you love

paula was your middle name
perhaps you and uncle paul have reunited

perchance you dream glorious starscapes
perforcedly beyond my or any human ken

your light-green eyes in the sunlit kitchen
you looked into eternity heedless of Hey Mom

.

but you always needed times of inaccess
in the many-pillowed bed for a two-hour nap
reading the phoenix gazette
taking a walkered walk in your latter life
how glad i was to make you laugh
dimple up your face
and make you proud to have mothered me
yet there was certainly a good bit of arguing

maybe the argument is now a discussion

only passage and Eternity will tell

miss you, lady