Lorna Goodison Quote

My mother raises rare blooms
and waters them with tea
her birth waters sang like rivers
my mother is now me.


I Am Becoming My Mother (1989)


My mother raises rare blooms and waters them with tea her birth waters sang like rivers my mother is now me.

My mother raises rare blooms and waters them with tea her birth waters sang like rivers my mother is now me.

My mother raises rare blooms and waters them with tea her birth waters sang like rivers my mother is now me.

My mother raises rare blooms and waters them with tea her birth waters sang like rivers my mother is now me.