When All The Parts Were Posted

In his senior year
When all the parts were posted
We celebrated.
My son
Got the lead
Tevye, a fiddler
Balancing between college applications
And tradition.

And me
Trying out
For
Letting go
A stumbling second-rate amateur
Beseeching
Do you love me?

Aren’t we always rehearsing to leave Anatevka?

Higginsville Reader, 10 (4)