low sunshine
glinting through the leaves
falling plums
© Rachel Green August 2022
Always a good Catholic,
Mum never missed Mass
and hoped for eternal life
in a mythical Heaven.
When she died,
my father chose cremation
and denied her resurrection.
There's God for you:
you need a corporal body
to go to an ethereal place.
© Rachel Green August 2022
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