once ruffle-skirted vanity table where I primped at thirteen, opening drawers to a private chaos of eyeshadows lavender teal sky-blue, swarms of hair pins pony tail fasteners, stashes of powders, colonies of tiny lipsticks (p.39)
Barbara Blatner, The Still Position: A Verse Memoir of My Mother's Death
cancer, colon-cancer, death, death-and-dying, death-and-sickness, death-at-home, death-of-a-loved-one, memoir, mother, mother-and-child, mother-and-daughter, mother-and-son, poetry, poetry-quotes, verse