This is painful!

When I was forty,
my parents buried Rachel.
The mailman smelled
her decaying body
through the mail slot.
An open bottle of pills
sat on the bedside table.
Her body left a stain
on the bedroom floor.
I scrubbed it until my wrist gave out.
Mom never cried.
She covered the spot
with a rug and sold the house.
A Collage of My Mother
4.5K
71
Theodore McDowell
Freda Savahl
·Follow
May 4, 2024
--
This is painful!
--
--
Written by Freda Savahl3K Followers
·2.9K Following
Retired Nurse Practitioner WHC /Contract Provider Deployment Military Services. US Citizen. Immigrant from South Africa 1978.
No responses yet
Help
Status
About
Careers
Press
Blog
Privacy
Terms
Text to speech
Teams