It’s true, sometimes she would comb her hair with a fork
at the dinner table rather than actually eat. Sometimes
she would bathe a whole day. Sometimes I caught her
whispering to the goldfish, bust mostly she was a regular mom.
She drove me to swimming lessons and went to the movies
and criticized herself in mirrors so I would learn to do it too.
Even after she cut herself loose from the net of her marriage-
we never spoke of the deal she made to fishhook my father into love.
She got her voice back, but still-when she started dating again,
I watched her catch new men
the old way.
The Mermaid’s Daughter
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