CALYX: My Mother, the Mirror

First published in CALYX: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women Vol. 35:1, March 2025.

My Mother, the Mirror 

After the divorce
She shyly stood 
Naked
In front
Of me 
And said
how can i show
this body
to anyone?
And I watched
With a curious
Confusion
Wondering
How that body
That grew me
Like a hunger
Could recoil
At its own 
Reflection