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Poetry

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Four Weeks

Ma, it’s spooky how my whole body fit in your whole body / and now my body builds another

Poetry | July/August 2023 | By Ariel Kaplowitz Hahn


Blurred lake horizon - Unsplash photo by Taylor Leopold

Without Reservation

so long I thought / she did not love me with her body

Poetry | July/August 2023 | By Barbara Rockman


Clouds - Photo by Dan Freeman via Unsplash

Arrivals Gate

He hasn’t yet learned / relationships are lessons in becoming more alone.

Poetry | July/August 2023 | By Vanessa Stirling


Flowers - Unsplash photo by Janusz Maniak

Wildflower

I will call all my pieces back / crease their bright blue into / a book as a pressed wildflower

Poetry | July/August 2023 | By Jen Fitzgerald


Dandelions - Photo by Paul Talbot via Unsplash

Statistics

good moms will raise kids who are / confident, the kind who try new things / without being afraid to fail because, to them, / failing is just falling

Poetry | July/August 2023 | By Marissa Glover


Sunrise - Photo by OC Gonzalez via Unsplash

Rivers of Mitochondria

in all her sepia glory she’d know her lost tongue, / where her people came from, her way back home

Poetry | July/August 2023 | By Yeva Johnson


Trees - Photo by Amanda Mocci via Unspalsh

Single Moms Have No Time for Birdwatching: Ask Me How I Know

you must be a parent, barely / escaping ruin. Are you hurt, / little wife?

Poetry | July/August 2023 | By Laurie Klein


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Body Swap

my womb, like a bruised pear, / shrank

Poetry | May/June 2023 | By Gillian Shearer


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Goat in the Corner

My past is printed on glossy paper. Flat, / with only memory to inflate it.

Poetry | May/June 2023 | By Deborrah Corr


Golden grass - Unsplash photo by Janusz Maniak

Motherspeak

Mom says / pretty is as pretty does. / What she means is: I can’t / bear to be without you.

Poetry | May/June 2023 | By Anna Abraham Gasaway


Anatomies photo by Evie Schaffer via Unsplash

Anatomies

Anatomy of rose & hydrangea, / unpresent; / the expectant carpel & stamen, / unmet.

Poetry | May/June 2023 | By Isabel Soto


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