Question

Artwork by Khan & Kowarski. Courtesy: ArtChowk Gallery.

Soft summer night.  In the garden,
my daughter lies back in my arms.
We look up at the stars.

I think of my own mother
folded tight into
her warm dark bed
of Mississippi Delta clay.

I wonder where
and why she’s gone.

I point up at the sky.
“The Big Dipper” I tell my child.
“A question mark,” she says.

~ Susan Castillo Street

 

Susan Castillo Street is a Louisiana expatriate and academic who lives in the English countryside south of London.  She has published a book of poems titled ‘The Candlewoman’s Trade’ (Diehard Press, 2003); her poems have appeared in poetry reviews in Scotland, the US, and Luxembourg.  She is a member of two poetry groups, the Conduit Street Poets (London) and 52.