SandScript 2020

Tom Webster
La Sagrada Familia
Archival Pigment Print, 15”x15”
VISUAL ART
In Memoriam of My Mother’s Mothers
Kat Johnson
Sometimes my mother’s voice
takes to the center stage of my mind.
Her rosary dangles from the rearview mirror, swinging back and forth
as if it were a pendulum being used to induce hypnosis.
She steps valiantly into a singular spotlight.
Her actions are completely independent of my own vain influence; they are practiced.
Her phantom is opaque and I can hear the click of her heels across the stage.
She takes a deep breath and in an act of love,
or of obligation, she says,
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