Maria Kranidis
USA
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Maria
Kranidis teaches English at Suffolk County Community
College. She is the founder of Cassandra and The
Milestone Journal and has been an editor for A State
of the Art, Cabaret, Confrontation
and Rio, an online magazine.
She lives on Long Island, NY. Born in Greece and raised in
New York City, she finds the world to be a multifaceted
chaos waiting to be put into order. She goes to Greece every
year to find that order…only to discover that she thinks in
Greek, she writes in English, and feels in both |
Mother
Sometimes the rain
comes too late
Almost thirty years after you left,
I noticed the deep wounds within the earth are thirsty
This is not spring-the fall wants its quenching
It is almost the month of your birth-
You’ve cursed the moment a million times
In your silent songs you wished for more
And waited for Sunday to end so you could begin again-
The giving- the purpose- the ancient smile that knew how to die
young
The smells of moist chaos around your box of pins and needles-
unfinished
dreams in French gardens
Victorian times were long gone before you came
These were different types of people then
Your body must have felt the weight of tomorrow
The grandchildren and all their troubles
you were tired to wait for the sun
You just rolled over and goodbye for you was never sweet.
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