11/30
Sonnets From Other Lives: Melinda

Melinda can’t leave well enough alone.
She’s going to have to somehow be involved.
These are—she reasons—matters of the home
& hearth & so the problem must be solved.
Her son—Marvin—is less that sure she’s right.
It is—in fact--his marriage we’re discussing—
his infidelity & not his wife’s—
but Mom is Mom & currently she’s fussing
over scripture—looking for the perfect verse
to inspire a reconciliation
through spiritually uplifting guilt & terse
syntax. Is it her imagination
or is Marvin too content on settling
on a strategy based on his Mommy’s meddling?