I Ask My Mother to Sing She begins, and my grandmother joins her. Mother and daughter sing like young girls. If my father were alive, he would play his accordion and sway like a boat. I’ve never been in Peking, or the Summer Palace, nor stood on the great Stone Boat to watch the rain begin on Kuen Ming Lake, the picnickers running away in the grass. But I love to hear it sung; how the waterlilies fill with rain un l they overturn, spilling water into water, then rock back, and fill with more. Both women have begun to cry. But neither stops her song. MS‐Monday Workshop—Poetry RR Page 1 MS‐Monday Workshop—Poetry RR Poetry Circle
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