Child to Mother

Georgia Anne Banks Martin

I want to remember us
chopping in our garden,
the way I laughed when I pulled
from my pants a turnip leaf
that had stuck to them
like a piece of felt.

Picking the tomatoes

just before they turned red,
pulling up the largest onions

to mince for chow-chow.

The feathered, embossed

and sequined frocks

we made from fabric fragments
fit only for my Barbie dolls.

I want to remember you wearing

your gray pen stripe suit,

four inch suede heels,

red hat with its floppy brim secured

by your pearl hat pen.

Not the time you spent

in the nursing home

forced to sit in a wheelchair

and attend therapy sessions

Georgia Anne Banks Martin - Georgia Ann Banks-Martin was born in Lincoln Park, MI on Feb. 6, 1971. She was raised on the southwest side of Detroit in the area known as Marion Park. She attended Beard Elementary, Wilson Middle School, and Southwestern High. However, she completed high school at Sidney Lanier in 1989 after relocating to Montgomery, AL during the summer of 1988. She earned her BA in English, Language Arts at Huntingdon College, Montgomery, AL (1997) and her M.F.A. (Poetry) at Queens University of Charlotte, located in Charlotte, NC (2009). Currently she is pursuing a Ph.D. in Mythological Studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpentaria, CA

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