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Lola Ridge: Mother

Lola Ridge

(1871-1941)

 

Mother

Your love was like moonlight

turning harsh things to beauty,

so that little wry souls

reflecting each other obliquely

as in cracked mirrors …

beheld in your luminous spirit

their own reflection,

transfigured as in a shining stream,

and loved you for what they are not.

 

You are less an image in my mind

than a luster

I see you in gleams

pale as star-light on a gray wall …

evanescent as the reflection of a white swan

shimmering in broken water.

 

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