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the black and white photo
is resting in black corner holders
in a leather-bound book
I found it among the bits
and pieces of my mother’s life
as I helped her down-size
the laundry hangs on the line
moving in the breeze that blows
from the Rockies in the west
in the background lies the prairie
full of grass and planted wheat
mostly of the winter variety
just outside of the picture
stands a woman dressed in a long skirt
simple blouse and three children
she whispers to the children
in her soft-accent
her hair tied up on the top of her head
she gazes past the laundry on the line
past the short-grass prairie flatness
past the horizon and back to her home
Pamela Olson, 4/22/08
This was written in response to the prompt and picture from
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