Audacious Apron:
Mother is of Two Minds
Mind #1:
These muddy browns and muted greens are perfectly good
colors!
Your father was wearing brown shoes on the day we met.
This green is practical.
Brown is embedded in the earth and that’s a good thing.
Brown and green form a reliable base; feet planted firmly in
soil.
Rooted and stationary in the natural and organic order of
the universe.
Mind #2:
My name should have been Sojourner
or Mecca or Athene or Poseidon or Mercury, that one with wings.
I could have been happy as one of those women who traveled
the world:
Nellie Bly, Gertrude Bell, Amelia Earhart, ……
Brown says “stick in the mud, stuck at home making the best
of it.”
I walk by the sea and collect starfish skeletons and sharp
teeth shed by sharks.
From Thailand, I gain blue horizons and wild proliferation.
Mind #1:
The thrifty housewife is the happy housewife.
Make do is the
motto of imagination.
Leftovers are better than money in the bank.
Mind #2:
I want to spend my life with great abandon!
Joy is a bottomless, heart-shaped bucket.
For once, I WILL shoot my own arrow and follow it through the
galaxy!
(c) 2018 "A is for Apron: Tales from the Domesticity Jungle," Artwork, Narratives,
and Poetry by Josephine Carubia, Ph.D.
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