Soft summer night. In the garden,
my daughter lies back in my arms.
We look up at the stars.
I think of my own mother
folded tight into
her warm dark bed
of Mississippi Delta clay.
I wonder where
and why she’s gone.
I point up at the sky.
“The Big Dipper” I tell my child.
“A question mark,” she says.
~ Susan Castillo Street
Susan Castillo Street is a Louisiana expatriate and academic who lives in the English countryside south of London. She has published a book of poems titled ‘The Candlewoman’s Trade’ (Diehard Press, 2003); her poems have appeared in poetry reviews in Scotland, the US, and Luxembourg. She is a member of two poetry groups, the Conduit Street Poets (London) and 52.