Kimmy Sophia Brown
 

Thinking of Mom on her 96th birthday

~ August 9, 1922 ~

Aug 5, 2018

I look at my belly button,
the place whereby
my mother’s body
grew and fed me.
This remnant
a visible telling of how
we are passed down
through the ages like
picked fruit.
My mother took her place
among the ancestors 
thirty-five years ago.
Yet
her being is always with me.
I reach my hands out
and wonder,
did she exist?
Did she take up space? 
And how would we talk
now as women?
There is so much to say. 

 

 

 

 

Kim lives in Maine, which is lovely, and where she continues her enthusiastic relationship with Art, Music, Nature, Books, Animals, Humor and Trees.