Amberlee Carter - For Rebecca

(the sun around which my earth rotates)


I sat on the steps

picking at

what light remained frozen

in the diamond cut cracks of cement



My sister went on

talking about her day

and I became lost

in the translations-

She had preached of God

then turned to a story

of her youngest child Eli-



I sat, enduring moments

without the heart to tell her

I would be leaving

this world of bibles and damnation behind



She had not noticed

her baby doll had grown up-

But she did see

a calling in me

when the wind rose up

scaring the birds from off their perch

atop the telephone wire-

She turned, her motherly face and said:

'love, you be sure to keep in touch....'

Amberlee Carter

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