Mananam, 2023
Oil on canvas
If There Is One Thing Mother Never Lets Me
Gretle C. Mago
It is to never go near her garden. Where all her plants are desperate to bloom. Where the sun is not the sun anymore: too bright, too harsh. Even the sunflowers and daffodils flinch and turn in on themselves. And the tulips? They never wake from the fall.
Mother never allows me to peak into her garden. When the thunder speaks and the storm announces itself, mother hurries. Mother, hurry. Keeping the windows…