from Mothering
she sees him walking toward her across the sea floor, slow-motion . the light is blue and shifting it falls in curtains and rays . there are fish all around, swimming between them like stars, blue and striped and shiny . he walks like a robot, if he holds her she will hear his engine running, she can feel nuts and bolts holding his elbows together she says, Deep Sea Diver I love you with your silence with your dark blue movements with the world floating away with birth and death in one place
Judith Kerman is the editor/publisher of Mayapple Press. Her prose poem book, Mothering (Uroboros Books/Allegany Mountain Press, 1978) received Honorable Mention in the 1978 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award competition; it has been reissued with a companion play in Mothering & Dream of Rain (Ridgeway Press, 1996) and as a Storyspace (tm) hypertxt in Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext 2.2.
Updated 6/8/04
Judith Kerman
Mothering & Dream of Rain
Paper, perfect bound, 88 pp
$12 plus s&h
1996, Ridgeway Press
ISBN 0-932412-22-X
Mothering
is also available in a computer-based hypertext, published in Eastgate
Quarterly Review of Hypertext #2.2
