cold laps the shore
no choice but to step in
stride out, stake my place
transmute into tower
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Tag: mother
New Poetry from Jeffrey Kingman: “Matriarch,” “Josephine Marcus Earp,” and “Marching: Sophia Duleep Singh”
MATRIARCH ninth great-grandchild spits up peas seventh and fourth declare themselves winners I bundle the children in…
New Poetry from Laura King: “Orange”
ORANGE It’s June, and a few stubborn ones still hang on the trees. We stand on the back of the pickup to pluck one— s…
New Poetry by Rochelle Jewell Shapiro: “Each Night My Mother Dies Again”
EACH NIGHT MY MOTHER DIES AGAIN Each night the phone rings— Your mother has passed. Each night I expect to be …
New Poetry by Emily Hyland: “Rehab Day 1,” “Rehab Day 4,” “Rehab Day 9,” “Rehab Day 11,” and “Rehab Day 19”
REHAB DAY 1 He hadn’t told me, hadn’t stopped drinking drank beer in the hallway near recycling where people b…
New Poetry from Amalie Flynn: “Married”
For twenty years I have been marriedto a morning. Of blue sky that stretchesand pulls across me like water filli…