Hurry
by Marie Howe
We stop at the dry cleaners and the grocery store
and the gas station and the green market and
Hurry up honey, I say, hurry,
as she runs along two or three steps behind me
her blue jacket unzipped and her socks rolled down.
Where do I want her to hurry to? To her grave?
To mine? Where one day she might stand all grown?
Today, when all the errands are finally done, I say to her,
Honey I’m sorry I keep saying Hurry—
you walk ahead of me. You be the mother.
And, Hurry up, she says, over her shoulder, looking
back at me, laughing. Hurry up now darling, she says,
hurry, hurry, taking the house keys from my hands.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Daddy, daddy, I can’t go to school by Raj Arumugam
- Chris’mas Invitation by William Barnes
- From ‘Arcades’ poem – John Milton poems
- Николай Карамзин – Покой и слава
- A Draught Of Sunshine poem – John Keats poems
- Grandfather’s Love by Sara Teasdale
- Come up from the Fields, Father. by Walt Whitman
- Sonnet 102: My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming by William Shakespeare
- Death by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Blind Man’s Buff by William Blake
- The Seeing Eye poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Hiking by Mike Yuan
- A man went before a strange God by Stephen Crane
- America, America by Saadi Youssef
- Эмиль Верхарн – Золото
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