Tipton Poetry Journal – Fall 2021
She Hummed Norbert Krapf When I woke in my bedroom above the kitchen where she was preparing the breakfast I could hear her hum happily. When I came downstairs she was still humming about the beginning of another day. If your mother hums the day in you have no right to mope, no matter what you have dreamed. So I too hummed, quietly, as she said good morning like a happy bird. So I guess I chirped back, glad to have a mama bird so happy to be alive in her own kitchen that I did my own kind of singing too.
A former Indiana Poet Laureate, Norbert Krapf has published fourteen poetry collections, the most recent Indiana Hill Country Poems and Southwest by Midwest. My Homecomings: A Writer's Memoir, covering the fifty years of his writing and publishing life, will appear next year. Krapf has also produced a poetry and jazz CD with pianist-composer Monika Herzig, Imagine and also performs poetry and blues with Gordon Bonham. See also www.krapfpoetry.net.
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