Amethyst Echo

Sheila Vosen-Shorten

Mother's china cabinet
purple sun
in glass
bottles collected
from depression dumps
discarded
years of lavender
distilling memories
like apothecary wine;

We rummage together
and once again
Mother
you've shown us
how to bleed a turnip,
that you can get something
from nothing--
the lilac hint of possibility
in our clear and simple lives.