my mother sits in front of a light
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She sits in front of a light
that is supposed to help her depression, a few minutes every day, she sits in front of the light and writes in the happiness journal I gave her for Christmas. Once she said the clock wasn’t moving and the secondhand wasn’t moving and nothing was moving forward and I drove to her in the middle of the night. I don’t think the clock stopped I don’t think anything ever really stops I don’t think anything has stopped ever since and she’s been sitting alone in front of the light. |
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Jennifer Jackson Berry is the author of The Feeder (YesYes Books, 2016). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Grist, Poet Lore, Connotation Press, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and Verse Daily, among others. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her website is www.jenniferjacksonberry.com.
Paolo Morales is a photographer. He was born and raised in New York City and currently lives in Virginia. He received an MFA in photography from Rhode Island School of Design, attended Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, and teaches at George Mason University and The Potomac School.