Happy Mother’s Day - May 12, 2024

she takes the bones

out of the broth  dices

the frig’s orphaned vegetables

two large carrots  ¼ onion

10 string beans  some zip-locked

spinach  rice from last night’s

takeout  defrosts and cubes

a mystery meat and throws

it all in the pot

before long the smell snakes

through the house and under

her son’s door who puts down his

phone  closes a book and bare-

foots it down to the kitchen

Hungry?

Mothers are the homemade soup

that has no name