New Butler County Prison ~

New Butler County Prison  

Butler Woman ~

She would come every day

to visit her son, thirty-seven now,

who had been sent

to the County Prison

for murder.

I am only doing

what a mother does, she said.

At night she would dream

she had seen him

coming home from school

with books under his arm,

smiling, waving to her

standing at her kitchen window,

waiting.


from: The Butler Pennsylvania Poems