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
- Prayers by Rainbow Reed
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Н. Ф. Щербине
- Ations by Shel Silverstein
- Олег Григорьев – Я спросил электрика Петрова
- Владимир Британишский – Молодой Толстой
- March on, Yes! by Miles
- Олег Григорьев – Комары
- An Epithalamium by Sappho
- After Schiller by Thomas Hardy
- Ярослав Смеляков – Вот опять ты мне вспомнилась, мама
- Новелла Матвеева – О юморе
- Love by Robert Creeley
- Always Unsuitable by Marge Piercy
- The Female of the Species by Rudyard Kipling
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