{"id":2143,"date":"2012-05-14T11:19:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T19:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/onelife\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2023-05-14T17:20:51","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T17:20:51","slug":"happy-belated-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/?p=2143","title":{"rendered":"Happy Mothers Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CUB<\/strong><\/p>\n

One hand follows the other<\/p>\n

to this place where bears scuffle<\/p>\n

over huckleberries, deer flies<\/p>\n

rule. Well dry, climbing roses<\/p>\n

rest, wait out freak heat.<\/p>\n

I tend seedlings, bulbs, plots,<\/p>\n

fume as my terrier, soft woofer, degenerates<\/p>\n

into a baying Cerberus. I am expecting<\/p>\n

no one. Then I hear gears,<\/p>\n

wheels pulverizing the rutted gravel road.<\/p>\n

ANY CHARACTER HERE<\/div>\n

I am expecting nothing. Nothing<\/p>\n

is what I receive until your teeny foot<\/p>\n

in my door, your arrival triangulating two<\/p>\n

parties. Spoony offshoot, the final score<\/p>\n

of recreational sex into overtime. A boy. To bore<\/p>\n

into my nape and puke and suck hard.<\/p>\n

I must have been a girl before. I forget history.<\/p>\n

How many years we angled in the Tetons.<\/p>\n

Buff. Randy. Flush. How many sappy<\/p>\n

songs he scritched onto tree bark.<\/p>\n

ANY CHARACTER HERE<\/div>\n

Our nativity, out here, on a bed of curling,<\/p>\n

luminous white fungi. Or while I bob<\/p>\n

in the pond, dozing between koi. Pains.<\/p>\n

Suspended yellow hands will wave, cheer;<\/p>\n

maple leaves ensnared in a web of bare boughs.<\/p>\n

Alder trunks will lean over us,<\/p>\n

black pencils graying, mottled, like soldiers<\/p>\n

erasing interlopers, blending in to make peace.<\/p>\n

The vegetable patch, with stalks of pink<\/p>\n

rhubarb will fuel our labour. I hope it\u2019s on a night<\/p>\n

the mountain lion sleeps. You are born<\/p>\n

ANY CHARACTER HERE<\/div>\n

in October. Know what you want. Know<\/p>\n

that I have it. Zero in on immunoglobulins. Fat.<\/p>\n

Sugar. I smell like you. The flow may slow<\/p>\n

though we nurse until you are two, my nipples<\/p>\n

tall, sturdy. Prissy finger wags. Hissy grandma tongue<\/p>\n

gags. Perverts. Just don\u2019t call me late for supper.<\/p>\n

Junior\u2019s favourite corny joke. Before I forget,<\/p>\n

she was stacked, dreaded parent-teacher nights<\/p>\n

and ran our household like an ant farm.<\/p>\n

ANY CHARACTER HERE<\/div>\n

Not willing to wait, you nearly die from myth.<\/p>\n

A believer. In Santa. Age eight. Lodged<\/p>\n

in the chimney. Woody, sweet as a cinnamon stick<\/p>\n

tender volunteer fireman work hours to heave-ho,<\/p>\n

hand over. A smudge. Intrepid soot cub,<\/p>\n

legs strapping my waist. Frightened, at last.<\/p>\n

ANY CHARACTER HERE<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  CUB One hand follows the other to this place where bears scuffle over huckleberries, deer flies rule. Well dry, climbing roses rest, wait out freak heat. I tend seedlings, bulbs, plots, fume as my terrier, soft woofer, degenerates into a baying Cerberus. I am expecting no one. Then I hear gears, wheels pulverizing the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12051,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions\/12051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heatherhaley.com\/hh2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}