of indulgence and memorythe courtyard is swarming with the swallow stream of infancymothers rocking prams idly with their feeteveryone looks terribly well-fedit’s different when they’re you’re ownso they saythough I seem to recollectthe tasteless glances of ambivalenceglazing my mother’s eyes
Author: Eleanor Jackson
Eleanor Jackson is a Filipino Australian poet, performer, arts producer, cyclist, writer, gal about town, feminist, freewheeler, and friend.