December 2023 Poetry

Poetry

• Finally

  By Lori Negridge Allen

• At the Children’s Hospital

  By Ellie Francis Douglass

• Glitter Trail

  By Elizabeth Kuelbs

• Nightcap

  By Kate Muth

• The Smell of Apricot Oil Still Unhinges Me

  By Rayya Liebich

• Ode to an Emigrant

  By Mary Rohrer-Dann

• Scrolling headlines from a hospital bed

  By Ariel Friedman

• Quadriplegia: Eleven Years In

  By Wendell Hawken

• Aubade, first trimester

  By Chantelle Lynn

• Milk Teeth

  By Helen Scadding

• Domestic

  By Katherine L. Hester

• Joseph

  By Joanne Clarkson

• Musical Notes: Motherhood

  By Jennifer Randall Hotz

• Worn

  By Ashley L. Case

• Second baby

  By Alyssa Sinclair

• Coreopsis

  By Hannah Ringler

• Rearrangement

  By Marda Messick

• Stolen Lollipops

  By Gretchen M. Michelfeld

• Listening to My Son, 13, Play the Piano

  By Kristine Rae Anderson

• Not the Hawk

  By Lisa Rhoades

• How I Come to Rely on Your Wisdom

  By Angie Mimms

• King Tide

  By Emily Winakur

• Two Photos

  By Jaime Speed

• Texts to É. during My First Work Commute in Two Years

  By Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren

• The Swing

  By Summer Hardinge

• Ten ways of engaging with your teenager

  By Dayna Patterson

• “If We Could Dream Back Everything Lost”

  By Roseanne Freed

• Growing Pains

  By Jane Medved

• Getting Rid of the Books

  By Jennifer Hyde Dracos-Tice

• Babymoon Over Blackened Bay

  By Katelynn Bishop

• Attachment

  By Sarah A. Etlinger