Raymond Antrobus is a Cave Canem fellow and author of The Perseverance (Penned in the Margins, 2018).
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Maybe my most important identity is being a son
my mother
asking how
to open a tab
on her laptop,
to email a photo,
calling to ask—
can you change
the lightbulb
at the top of the stairs?
my mother
spending hours
helping me find
a doctor’s form,
a hearing aid battery,
anything
misplaced, my mother
who keeps leaving
her keys in the doors
or on the...