Jim Zola
The Good Mother
Cover Art: Eliot Porter, "Red-Eyed Vireo with Cowbird," June 20, 1941, Gelatin silver print, MOMA
The Good Mother
I think of the cowbird thieving space
in a twiggy bed, egg laid lickety-split in a sparrow’s absence. My mother waits for my weekly calls. I never heard her say she loved me. The cowbird knocks bunting or warbler brood from the nest to make room. She has learned how to lay a quick egg, how to spot a good mother. |
Jim Zola is a poet and photographer living in North Carolina.
past, Fire Folio: Darren C. Demaree next, Daniel Edward Moore