Five poems for my birth mother

1.

Confirmation, and the ability

to reshape. Here,

we speak of origins. Of

provenance.

2.

An elegy, and the dawn

unwinds.

3.

A tale I had no part, but am

affected by. At least,

as much as I might choose.

4.

A collision of flashing lights

on my timeline.

5.

I have never seen a poem

burn so clean.