"Mother's Day" by David Young

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I see her doing something simple, paying bills,

or leafing through a magazine or book,

and wish that I could say, . . .
 --From "Mother's Day," a poem by David Young, continued on the website of the Academy of American Poets, reprinted from Field of Light and Shadow: Selected and New Poems by David Young (Alfred A. Knopf, 2010).