Overheard at Table 3: Both Father and Mother

Both Father and Mother

Both father and mother
know
the child who has
fallen down the stair,
the one they taught
to ride a bike,
the one they sent
off to school,

but only the mother
knows
the child who
never was, who 
was left in
pieces, spilled
out on the 
hospital floor.

MR
2021-0806