Anne MacNaughton
I Used the Think the Mother Part of Me

i used to think the mother part of me was divine
we two in loft discover the mother and father
parts of ourselves to be the highest parts

and i dressed up as mother kali and you as shiva
and we made a child who was destroyed
a world that went away
and we were told
not to call him back

i got tired of it long before it got tired of me
but found a new home and the home
became mother and made a child
and he was good and grew to be
my brother

and i became my mother and was tired
but shed the mother part of me and am now
fat-bellied like a dog
but spayed by nature

my mother more divine than I

Copyright © 2003 Anne MacNaughton

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