MAMA'S SONG (Monday Poem)

by Deborah Chandra


Mama hums a sea-song with her eyes,
A deep blue rising sea-song,
    moving as her eyes move,
    weaving foam across my fac.

White gulls whirl overhead,
The sun washes back and forth,
     and I am rocking . . .
          rocking . . .
               like a boat
          in the waves
               of her song.



from Balloons and Other Poems by Deborah Chandra, illustrated by Leslie Bowman, 1990, Farrar Straus Giroux