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She Outlived Her Sins
Grandma cleaned up after Ma.
It might be for an hour or seven years.
Ma still remembers her flights
As calls that needed to be answered.
The selfishness remains
But her needs are diminished.
I suspect that the guilt has not lessened.
Otherwise there would no letter.
Written when she had caught sight
Of a century’s worth of rationalizing,
Written as her reading of the leaves
Settled over a lifetime of desires chased.
With a still steady hand,
Facing the last horseman,
She authored an accounting
That insisted on her innocence.
And I, having read Ma’s defense
Of her abandonment of my childhood
Moved quickly, perhaps too quickly,
From victim to defender of her love for me.
