Browsing the "Poetry" Tag

Why he is not my little boy

March 9th, 2021 | by Wandajune Bishop-Towle

Too tall.  Born too late, too old. His eyes—lakes of day not brown like mine. He sings too high too loud in a


Ginny Wiehardt on KNIFE SKILLS

October 23rd, 2020 | by Ginny Wiehardt

‘Knife Skills’(After a BBC documentary on postpartum OCD) They gleamed at her from kitchen drawers, reflecting the self she feared,


SAHM: In Three Poems

July 16th, 2019 | by Ellie Hudson

“Identity” I have to decide if I am the type of mom who waits ‘til bedtime and secretly reads the


The Final Trimester

June 28th, 2019 | by Jennie Meyer

By Jennie Meyer out of seventy-six or so, if you consider that the ‘fourth trimester’ suggests they are really quarters,


POEMS by KUO ZHANG

February 11th, 2019 | by Kuo Zhang

Pregnancy I have known the secret joy of pregnancy, clip-clop of heartbeats in duet, high-fives across the belly, a mini-stove


Not Your Job

December 11th, 2018 | by Noriko Nakada

  after Caitlyn Siehl   When the doctor went to pierce the flap of skin under your nose with his



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