Sacred Places I Have Nursed My Son

In a Chinese Restaurant
Standing in line at the post office
the bank
Grocery store
Home Depot
and pharmacy
in my mother's garden at sunset
Flying over Chicago
Take Off Landing and In-between
In the snow
At a wedding
In a church
and a synagogue
On my (95-year-old) Grandmother's sofa
On the shores of Long Island, the Gulf of Mexico, and Pacific Ocean
On the toilet
During seven-hour train rides
and Satsang
At an anti-war rally
The airport in Dallas, Boston, Albuquerque, and Burlington
A dock on Lake Wentworth
The thrift store floor
At Thanksgiving Dinner
On the bank of the river in the Green Mountains.

Originally printed in Mothering Magazine, May/June 2004