A Good Cry
Overheard conversations are best.
“That’s a pretty big bear. Do you love it?” Etc.
I’m always walking by or away.
Some people have a knack.
I had spread the new old books on the table.
Some stories we can’t know.
Death means my mother won’t hold my hand again.
“See, I kept my word,” says a woman a few graves over.
Loyalty sounds blue, doesn’t it?
Now the sky has a look and is golden in the treetops.
Mary Ann Samyn is the author of seven collections of poetry, including The Return from Calvary and Air, Light, Dust, Shadow, Distance, both from 42 Miles Press. She teaches in the MFA program, writes about all things Cake & Poetry on Substack, and lives in WV and in her home state of Michigan.