My mother no longer visits me
in my dreams, actually
neither does for I’ve had two,
the advantage or is it
disadvantage of the adoptee.
None of my three fathers
ever paid a postmortem visit.
It complicates things when all
I know of my birth mother is
from a college yearbook photo,
but that is how she looked in those
few visits after I discovered her.
The same sort of photo is all I have
of my birth father, and I have a photo
of my first adoptive father holding me
but no real memories of the man
who dropped dead when I was two.
It is just as well they don’t visit,
I’m not sure I want to go there.