Terminal Lucidity

Todd Matson

Seeing her son as father,

her daughter as mother,

she launched into a long

convoluted lecture, censors

short-circuiting at age 97,

the repressed returning,

feelings swallowed, words

choked back since age 7

making a grand entrance

from a hospice bed:

Stop fighting about money,

about whom gets what. For

the love of God, what do you

care more about: your house

or your child, your car or your

child, your furniture or your

child, your pots, pans and

silverware or your child,

your nest egg or your child?

Todd Matson es un terapista de familia y matrimonios en Carolina del Norte, Estados Unidos. Su obra poética ha sido publicada en Feminine Collective, San Antonio Review, y The Brussels Review.

Halla que la poesía es una forma terapéutica de decantar sus emociones y buscar el crecimiento personal y espiritual.

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