Afternoons with Mom
- Dotty Holcomb Doherty
- Feb 3, 2018
- 1 min read
Updated: Sep 16, 2019
Afternoons with Mom
Like the ivy
that entwines
the old
butternut tree,
we sit nestled
in vines of easy silence

until the tendril of a story
reaches up and uncurls

and we laugh a leaf
into song.

Published in The Healing Muse, Oct, 2012