Body of Water       for Carol Kirkwood Stickney

My mother in dark water

Her beauty fuels the shore,

Reflections cannot alter

My mother in dark water,

O'er years--much will falter--

Tho' dreaming surely restores,

My mother in dark water

Her beauty fuels the shore.

Laura Stickney 2021

Notes:

photo of Carol Stickney c. 1945,

made into a Polaroid transfer by

Laura Stickney, 1995.