Jitka Anlaufova's Watercolors

Transparent, delicate, flowery beauty by Jitka Anlaufova. 

Another name for mother

Another name for mother

    is the self elbows itself to make room for someone else.

Strangers have always confessed

Strangers have always confessed

    to her, and now, with the baby, they tell her about their babies, now retired, who have
    babies who have babies. Eighty-eight years old, my husband gone, one of my sons gone,
    just one son left and all his babies here, family means everything. Remember to take    
    pictures.