FIVE POINTS - VOL. 14, NO. 3
My Mother’s Flashlight
by Sharon Olds
Sitting in the early morning dark,
holding my late mother’s little
chrome flashlight.
In the cylinder, the batteries shift
and roll, like two, double A, winged
monkey bombs. I write by her light.
When she had gone into her final coma,
and I was on the jet to her, flying
toward her as if I was-
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