Ma

I said it

not really to call

or invoke:

from childhood, it’s

a sigh

of wonder, an expression

of short-lived fatigue and love.

Last night I made the sound.

Shocked, I asked myself

who is listening?

Because

no one possesses

the privilege of being quite as close

and far away as she is.

Never was sign so

severed from referent,

never was word

so full of meaning again.