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Home Schooling
by Elsie Whitlow Feliz

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POETRY

Home Schooling
by Elsie Whitlow Feliz

Mother is crying again, and we don't know
why, but we try not to step on her heart
lying on the cold kitchen linoleum.

Sometimes we come home from school,
find her smiling over suds in the sink.
We don't ask the why of that either.

Father knows best, she tells us every day.
We try to learn this lesson, to be like her,
try to please, to never ever question.

Elsie Whitlow Feliz lives in Sacramento. She grew up in San Francisco in a Russian-American neighborhood. She is a mother of two daughters and grandmother of two grandsons. Her work has appeared in The San Fernando Valley Poetry Journal, Poetry Now, Poetry Depth Quarterly, Tiger's Eye, The Vietnamese Poetry Journal, Rattlesnake Review, Brevities, Chrysanthemum, and the anthology We Speak for Peace.