The Return

The poem

Suddenly the window will open and Mother will call it's time to come in

the wall will part I will enter heaven in muddy shoes

I will come to the table and answer questions rudely

I am all right leave me alone. Head in hand I sit and sit. How can I tell them about that long and tangled way.

Here in heaven mothers knit green scarves

flies buzz

Father dozes by the stove after six days' labour.

No--surely I can't tell them that people are at each other's throats.