Cancer gives Mom the ability to amble,
to take eight hours to drive four
to saunter from Rockport to Refugio
to stroll through Goliad up to Gonzales
to slow down in Yoakum (don’t stop!)
to linger in the geography of her youth
to mosey an eighth of a mile out of her way
to sit in the shade of a 500-year-old oak tree
still alive
like her.
