{"id":10471,"date":"2024-12-29T23:07:40","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T23:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farefwd.com\/?p=10471"},"modified":"2025-04-23T14:51:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T14:51:59","slug":"sestina-for-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farefwd.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/29\/sestina-for-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Sestina for Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Sestina for Mother<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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By J. C. Scharl<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The sun creeps a little higher
Around the house the air is cold.
Inside they are eating eggs,
as they always do. The glass
gives back their every breath as fog.\u00a0
The floor is littered again with toys.\u00a0<\/p>

Time drags. The child toys
with his food. He complains, higher-
pitched than before. The fog
fades. Outside it is too cold
to play, but the sun through the glass
says otherwise. Now the eggs<\/p>

are on the floor. Now the eggs
are in heaps. Now they are toys
of greatest interest. Now the glass
is smeared with eggs, and so much higher
than before\u2014another cold\u00a0
day. Time has passed, a fog<\/p>

of days. Again like breath the fog
wipes the window, but now the eggs
are balanced on a spoon. They\u2019re cold
before the child\u2019s finished. The toys
find homes in shelf space, always higher.
Open handprints fog the glass,<\/p>

eager. The days become like glass
and she gets glimpses through the fog:
the child\u2019s bright eyes higher
than her waist; the steaming eggs
devoured, the old garish toys\u00a0
give way, and outside the cold<\/p>

is not too fierce. Now that cold
world can be faced. A door of glass
rattles behind him. Now his toys
she does not understand. A new fog
billows up. She makes the eggs.
What else can she do? And higher<\/p>

and higher; now he prepares the eggs.
She grips old days as toys in fog,
glass baubles against the cold.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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J.C. Scharl<\/strong> is a poet and critic. Her poetry has appeared internationally on the BBC and in some of the nation\u2019s top poetry journals, including\u00a0The New Ohio Review<\/em>, The Hopkins Review<\/em>, and\u00a0The American Journal of Poetry<\/em>. Her criticism has appeared in many magazines and journals, including\u00a0Dappled Things<\/em>, The Lamp<\/em>, Fare Forward<\/em>, Religion & Liberty<\/em>,\u00a0and others. She is the author of the poetry collection\u00a0Ponds<\/em>\u00a0(Poiema Poetry Series 2024), and the verse play\u00a0Sonnez Les Matines<\/em>\u00a0(Wiseblood, 2023).\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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