Her Teapot As a Memento
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1 min readOct 1, 2019
I thought I’d keep
when my mother died
her teapot
as a memento.
It doesn’t matter now
– not even the memories,
only my ever-increasing
Knowledge
of the Mother
she Yearned to Be.
From The Re-Mothering Experience, recited by my son at my mother’s funeral.