Embracing our loved one’s eccentricities

I recently had a poem about my mother’s infamous shopping lists published. You can read “Her Lists” at The Prose Poem.

My mother’s lists were like a look inside her busy bee brain. It may have seemed like an oxymoron, but my mother’s chaotic organization style worked for her. That was fine until I became her caregiver and then I was the one responsible for interpreting her wacky roadmap.

I wrote “Her Lists” during a poetry workshop a few years ago. I tinkered with it just a bit since then, but it mostly came out as is on first draft. If you’ve had challenging caregiving moments that you are trying to work through, engaging with them in a creative process may be helpful. Taking a look at such moments with a different lens may be healing and provide some sense of closure.

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