Freeze by: brittany Lahla, Mixed Media, 2013.
Night Music
by: D. Parman
The old nursery clock keeps time
while my random humming
coaxes soft, comfortable sighs,
from sodden ear-piercing protests.
My daughter’s sweat-drenched curls,
snuggle deeper against my breast,
finding comfort
in the velvety smell
of freckled skin.
Tithes paid,
a cathedral silence follows.
Until once more, the distant rhythmic
whoosh-whooshing of the freeway
and the murmuring of rebellious floorboards
in the hall
sing their own fragile lullaby.