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Poetry | October 2014

For the Daughter I Can’t Have

By Beth Suter

you would have been
another beautiful disaster

my body couldn’t bear
another still tender scar

I lost my voice
in my son’s delivery

now he finds the words I seek

he says: “we are foiled
by the mere being of things”

I know he is my replacement

I dream of you, dandelion girl
what’s gone is everywhere

1 reply on “For the Daughter I Can’t Have”

Emily Shearersays:
October 21, 2014 at 6:46 am

Beth, what an intimate sharing of your feelings, so beautifully wrought onto the page. My daughter has sensory processing disorder too, and I have turned to poetry to help me process it all. I’m happy to have found your poetry here at literary mama.

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