Published in Issue 63.2: Spring 2024
Spring 2024 | Elizabeth Mudenyo Reads “mom makes time” – MQR Sound
a second home from a second home
a quarter home with women their children
their homes their husbands there
she is parting relaxed hair sectioning
recipes saving dresses for sunday
trades survival tips a grin a thank you
a whitening toothpaste a lightening cream
brings experience to thankless desks
saving for boots for the incalculable
snow collects like wondrous distraction
the cellophane tapes all four dining chairs
the couch crevices crumbs kids leave
food on their plates for TV no photos
to send home so dress in life yet to come
making home wondering when it will be
made if you wake up one day finally
home again someplace
You can read more from our Spring 2024 issue, available for purchase in print and digital forms here.
Elizabeth Mudenyo is a Scarborough-based poet. Elizabeth is a fellow of The Watering Hole and the Poetry Incubator and a participant of the Hurston/Wright Poetry and Diaspora Dialogues Short Form Mentorship with Olive Senior. Her work has appeared in Write, Arc, The Ex-Puritan, Canthius, CV2, and elsewhere. Her poetry chapbook, With Both Hands, was published through Anstruther Press. She is a graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph.
