Haiku for my disabled mother -- Untitled 1999 -- My mom, the treasure keeper -- Ode to my mother's dermatillomania -- The week my mother tree fell -- Always connected -- The airplanes -- Little buddy -- Numbers aren't everything -- I'm just a bird -- Forever-unexplained facts -- What grief looks like today -- My one (of 1,219,487) -- The tiniest details -- Our last concert -- Every scrape holds a story -- The last tissue -- Afterlife messages to my mother -- My mother's feet -- Always with me -- Haiku for my deceased mother -- About the author.