Foster
Your mother is all hips and song, blonde
bob brushing cheek bones step-
father, sore wrists and elbows calloused losing
thirty hairs every thirty days home
smells like Sunflowers except on
Sundays when brimming with popcorn and parched
Blue Note records cousins
hum discovering new streets in
familiar cities through each window Grand-
father speaks in crisp bell chimes, stories of Grand-
mother burning
bread on the day you were born
J Ryan Bermuda lives in Redlands, California, where people panic if it rains. Bermuda has been published in local journals such as The Sand Canyon Review, PoetrIE’s Tin Cannon, Dead Snakes poetry blogzine, Stone Path Review, The Camel Saloon, and The Wilderness House Literary Review.
Inlandia: A Literary Journey 