Fish in The Sky

Double-check the mirror

for my mother's eyes

(two bruised plums)

I'm still afraid

to go into the kitchen

(It's late and the shadows

move like cockroaches)

So I haven't served our

country or been to war

(but I've seen it, heard it

in my own home)

and yet

it took me twenty years

twenty years

(to notice the moonlight)