Image: © Charles Eastwood
postcard from atta, guyana
my mother’s footprints
The tales she’d tell
exotic morpho mother
I chase them in East Street
as I search for her home
find only scrubland
look for clues at Kitty
all trace washed away
of her swims in muddy seas
further on at Mahaica
cane-fields tell stories
of abandonment and
now i understand why
her sad face is the same
as her daydreaming face
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Mary Mulholland is a London-based poet and editor. She has pamphlets from Broken Sleep and Live Canon and a collection forthcoming from Nine Arches. She founded the platform Red Door Poets. http://www.marymulholland.co.uk