Yell

something must be wrong with the phone
Mother suddenly can’t hear me
but I can still hear her
hearing her panic and yell my name into the phone like yelling for me in the wild when I was little thinking I was lost
and would never respond
my eardrums feel the hit of a north wind from many hills
at last a click
silence on Mother’s end           not a sound
now my turn to yell
Mother… O Mother…