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Rebecca del Rio is a freelance writer and sometimes court investigator (for a paycheck.) Married, with two grown daughters and three grandchildren, she lives alternately in Northern California and Catalunya, Spain. She is, most recently, published in "The Loop", a San Francisco based print literary journal, AguaTerra, the 2006 fall print literary journal of Ascent Aspirations and "The Bohemian," a San Francisco North Bay weekly newspaper.

"This poem arose from my imagining the shock of finding her mother dead and the radical shift in perspective for the teenage daughter of my high school friend, Janet Mayer Daher, who was murdered in the spring of 1998 in a home invasion robbery in Lafeyette, California." Rebecca del Rio

Finding Her Mother Murdered by Rebecca del Rio

The daughter returns from school

burning with adolescent concerns,

like so many suns, all self.

How was it to find her mother

drained, a cold moon, dead calm

night, never again to soothe,

to smooth what once was

important.