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Rated: ASR · Poetry · Family · #692387
Writer's Cramp Quintilla about a possibility. Prompt = rain.
Composing a somber cinquain,
my mother crouched, heavy with me,
a daughter as bastard and bane,
writing lines about birth in rain
& setting newborn children free.
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