with losing your mother;
s e p a r a t i o n like a pane
of glass that forever keeps
you in another space from
t h e m. hand-clasped; arms
wrapped around eachother
as if all time was not a factor;
eating them pale they take
first steps, and d e e p breaths
and slip into the skin of wo-
manhood like a glass slipper
meant for …