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Poetry
2013
May 4 My Mother Drove a Race Car
May 4 Mother and Daughter, July 2008
May 4 The Bouquet
May 4 To My Mother, at Fifty
May 4 Generations
May 4 Cosmology
Apr 7 Birthday
Apr 7 Late April, Early May
Apr 7 Supermarket Lingerie
Apr 7 Blighted Ovum
Apr 7 Old School Baptist Churchyard
Hopewell, NJ
Mar 3 Pacifier Ode
Mar 3 New Mother Blues
Mar 3 Weaning: Burial
Mar 3 Weaning: Hurricane
Mar 3 Weaning: God
Mar 3 Weaned
Mar 3 An Occasional Elegy for Milk
Feb 9 Firstborn
Feb 9 Fish-eye
Feb 9 Menagerie
Feb 9 Forever
Jan 5 The terror is in the way it holds you.
Jan 5 Skipping Rocks on Lake Superior
Jan 5 Her Mother Confesses
Jan 5 Nature Walk
Jan 5 Aria
2012
Dec 2 8-year-old Buddha
Dec 2 Two Sweet Things
Dec 2 On the Interstate
Dec 2 How to Love
Dec 2 You Are Dismissed
Nov 3 Children’s Hospital, 2011
Nov 3 Good Poem
Nov 3 Morning
Nov 3 Weekday Morning Litany
Oct 20 Impregnate me please
Oct 20 Renaming the Newborn
Oct 20 Boulevard Brewing Co.
Oct 20 Anjali
Oct 20 XXIX
Sep 1 Untitled
Sep 1 Sunday Dinner
Sep 1 Animation Moms
Sep 1 The Ladder
Sep 1 Ash Wednesday
Sep 1 Rice Noodles
Aug 11 Interlude
Aug 11 Intersection
Aug 11 Daughter Heart
Aug 11 Boy’s First March
Aug 11 And My Love Goes with You
Jun 29 Approaching Monday
Jun 29 Turning It Over
Jun 29 What If Engulfed
Jun 29 Long View
Jun 29 Let’s Call This What It Is
Jun 3 Our Dad
Jun 3 his process
Jun 3 In the Waiting Room
Jun 3 Lullaby (for a husband)
Jun 3 Pitcher (for my husband)
Jun 3 Venture
Jun 3 My Cool-Jew Dad
May 5 Daughters
May 5 Mother-in-Law
May 5 Long Ago, Home
May 5 Care
May 5 Mother’s Day Love Poems
Mar 31 Zygotes, Hatched and Delivered
Mar 31 5 weeks
Mar 31 Pregnant Lady Be Ready
Mar 31 Testing
Mar 31 Pregnant
Mar 31 Yet to Be Born
Mar 3 Son
Mar 3 What Came to Mind When the Teacher Told Us to Write about Being American After Haiti, After Struggles for Democracy in the Middle East, After Japan and in the Midst of an Economic Downturn.
Mar 3 Broken Things
Mar 3 Broken Season
Mar 3 Venice, Acqua Alta
Mar 3 Washington, D.C.
Feb 5 Persephone, Marooned in the Underworld
Feb 5 Joy Empties, Refills
Feb 5 Stomp
Feb 5 The Thought of You
Feb 5 Waiting Area, Children’s Hospital, Boston
2011
Dec 31 Wendy Lady
Dec 31 Sunday Morning Miracles
Dec 31 The Secret Life of a Vanishing Dream
Dec 31 Animal Crackers
Dec 31 Runaway Women
Dec 4 Narration of Plastic Lizards
Dec 4 The Fight for Freedom and Love on a City Sidewalk
Dec 4 A Letter from Tigress, the Pit Bull
Dec 4 Untitled
Dec 4 Stall and Style
Dec 4 Simon Says in the Shopping Mall
Dec 4 Leah on Politics
Nov 6 Half of Infinity
Nov 6 March 16, 2 p.m.
Nov 6 he left her with so little
Nov 6 Petition
Nov 6 Eclipse
Oct 2 Stasis
Oct 2 Eight Haiku
Oct 2 At the Scene
Oct 2 The Child Behind the Wall
Oct 2 Mizuko Jizo
Oct 2 Come to Dust
Sep 3 Humpty Dumpty in the Wall
Sep 3 Motherhood
Sep 3 9 and a 1/2 Months
Sep 3 Without a map
Sep 3 In the Bathroom: A Play in Ten Acts
Sep 3 Love Talk
Aug 7 Mother and Son at Hockey Practice
Aug 7 Quiet, Mama
Aug 7 The Real Ghostbusters: Egon and Peter vs. Fallujah
Aug 7 After the Playground
Aug 7 His Mother Speaks
Jul 2 Birthday
Jul 2 Still Life
Jul 2 The Language of Light
Jul 2 Lullaby
Jul 2 Eastern Tent Caterpillar Moth
Jun 5 The Poem Is Interrupted
Jun 5 The ABCs of Parenting
Jun 5 Last Day at the Cabin
Jun 5 Paperboy
Jun 5 If You Give a Man Some Nookie
Apr 30 The Hymn
Apr 30 My Mother Is So Weird
Apr 30 After Birth
Apr 30 On the Front Porch at Midnight
Apr 30 Wild Flower or Faded Wreath
Apr 3 On Change
Apr 3 Easter Island
Apr 3 All Souls
Apr 3 February
Apr 3 Green Bones
Apr 3 Metamorphosis
Mar 6 Age Five in the Afternoon
Mar 6 Mother of Invention
Mar 6 Timing Giants
Mar 6 Nursing Barbie
Mar 6 Criminal Justice Syllogism
Mar 6 Comrades in a Suburban Flower Garden
Mar 6 The Tulips Have Good News:
A Kindergartener in Spring
Feb 6 Apron Strings
Feb 6 regular
Feb 6 Wise
Feb 6 Aldo’s Crying
Feb 6 The Art of Not Knowing
Feb 6 Clay People
Feb 6 Ut Ut Ut. Tha.
Jan 2 In the Flower Garden
Jan 2 Mother’s Day at the Blackjack Table
Jan 2 Telescopes
Jan 2 Mother Love
Jan 2 A Red Wagon for Sean
2010
Dec 5 The Undressing
Dec 5 Boy at Play
Dec 5 Lesson on Carrying
Dec 5 How the story begins
Dec 5 On Our Way Back from the Compost Heap Tonight
Nov 7 The In-Laws for Christmas Dinner
Nov 7 She’s Seven
Nov 7 The Ferris Wheel
Nov 7 Son,
Nov 7 Little Darling
Nov 7 Found Poem
Oct 3 Miscarriage (1)
Oct 3 Premature
Oct 3 The Spot
Oct 3 Tomatoes
Oct 3 April Storm
Sep 5 A Day by the Numbers
Sep 5 Reading Billy Collins’ “The Names” with My Daughter
Sep 5 Coloring in College
Sep 5 The Slide
Sep 5 Reading in Bed
Aug 1 the alphabet of deseret
Aug 1 On His Second Birthday
Aug 1 Retching
Aug 1 Washing My Daughter’s Soiled Underwear in the Snow
Aug 1 Spider eyes
Jul 10 Alien Fist
Jul 10 On taking the Boston Red Line from the MFA
Jul 10 Vasilissa’s Doll
Jul 10 Real Boy
Jul 10 Leah on Shopping
Jul 10 Field Trip
Jun 6 Poem to My Seven-Month-Old Daughter Ending with Two Slightly Altered Sentences from The Book Thief
Jun 6 gift of youth
Jun 6 Swallowing Tires
Jun 6 Libation
Jun 6 Undressing Vedan
Jun 6 Responsibility
Jun 6 Daughter/Mother and A Hare at Dusk
May 2 Walking
May 2 The Road to Hell Is Paved
May 2 One Hundred and Two Degrees
May 2 The ladies’ quilting club is out today,
Apr 10 How to Be Alone
Apr 10 Tree
Apr 10 Scenes from the Pediatric ER
Apr 10 Oh, No.
Apr 10 Unexpected
Mar 7 The Apiary
Mar 7 Peek-a-boo Baby
Mar 7 Claire in a Swing
Mar 7 Summer Solstice
Mar 7 Dragged at Dusk from the Park
Feb 13 Brevity
Feb 13 Pantoum
Feb 13 Lost
Jan 3 Pregnancy and Baby Songs
Jan 3 Josie and the Goose
Jan 3 it has a mind of its own
2009
Dec 6 My Daughter in the Garden
Dec 6 prayer
Dec 6 Cataract
Dec 6 Padded Walls
Dec 6 Afternoon Nap
Dec 6 The Last Bath of the First Snow
Dec 6 Mother-Son Dance at the Elementary School
Nov 1 Junk food poem
Nov 1 Tea Party
Nov 1 Engorged
Oct 4 Untitled
Oct 4 Caramel Macchiato
Oct 4 I Am a Fever
Oct 4 The Growing Mound
Oct 4 I am. Still.
Oct 4 Until I Do Not
Sep 5 The Muse Gets Angry Before Leaving for School
Sep 5 Motherhood is cruel
Sep 5 Alphabet Bag
Sep 5 Last week Charlotte went to college
Sep 5 Let Go
Aug 2 My Indigo Child
Aug 2 Placenta, encapsulated
Aug 2 Michaela’s Song
Aug 2 Dallas Delivery
Aug 2 Mothchild
Aug 2 Memory
Jul 12 Night Mothers
Jul 12 Achilles’ Heel
Jul 12 Fever Fugue
Jul 12 The Perks of Not Standing Up
Jul 12 The Baby Peeled the Clock Today
Jul 12 My daughter, four, confronts autumn and all its contradictions
Jun 6 A Bag of Green Apples
Jun 6 Upon Discovering My Wife Curled on a Dog Towel in the Downstairs Bathroom During My Fifth Month of Pregnancy
Jun 6 Tooth Fairy
Jun 6 Morning Ride
Jun 6 Penny Horse
Jun 6 Measurements
Jun 6 holding my son at 2 a.m.
Jun 6 Shavuot (First Fruits)
May 2 Mother Less, Mother More
May 2 Wrestling the Octopus
May 2 Presage
May 2 Penny Alchemy
May 2 Never Done
May 2 The Things We Do for Love
May 2 In the path of Mary
Apr 4 Winter Bath
Apr 4 Given
Apr 4 Bear
Apr 4 Hope Universal
Apr 4 What Will We Do This Morning
Apr 4 Fabrication
Mar 31 Happy National Poetry Month!
Mar 1 Curious George Flees Over the Prison Wall
Mar 1 Tuesday Mornings
Mar 1 Meditation on a broken child, var. 2
Mar 1 Sweat Test for Cystic Fibrosis
Mar 1 I Talk with My Friend by Canopic Jars
Feb 1 Meeting the Train
Feb 1 The Cardinal
Feb 1 My Mother’s Chest
Feb 1 My turn
Jan 10 Seven-year-olds
Jan 10 To Two Teenage Girls Playing with One Another’s Hair in the Back of My Classroom
Jan 10 Childhood Curiosity
Jan 10 An Expectant Mother’s Motion Parallax
Jan 10 I Am from Everywhere
2008
Dec 14 Reading SkippyJon Jones at Bedtime Is Suddenly Not Enough
Dec 14 Some Villanelles Go Nowhere
Dec 14 At the End of the Day
Nov 2 Barren
Nov 2 Mother
Nov 2 Numina
Nov 1 Natural Balance
Nov 1 Wild Craft
Oct 5 Lulled By
Oct 5 Should Have Been
Oct 5 Wish List
Oct 5 Five Seeds
Sep 7 Kitchen Daffodils
Sep 7 Cookie Bakers
Sep 7 Eaten Alive
Sep 7 In the Kitchen
Aug 3 Poem to Myself
Aug 3 Individuation
Aug 3 Teaching Luca Mr. Potato Head
Aug 3 At Chess Camp Picking Up My Daughter
Jun 2 Nap, Interrupted
Jun 1 Apiarial
Jun 1 kindness
May 4 To My Daughter, After a Fight
May 4 Swimming (Stretchmarks)
May 4 Dead Man’s Float
May 4 How to disappoint your mother
May 4 The Last Page
May 4 Christina
May 4 Iron
Apr 6 Ethan and Lily, After School
Apr 6 Mom Art
Apr 6 so much deepens
Apr 6 pieces of a liquid puzzle
Apr 6 Rain
Apr 6 Turn the Fire Off
Mar 8 Skating with Tropes
Mar 8 Ogunquit
Mar 8 Learning to Paint at Age 45
Mar 8 Phases
Mar 8 Tangled
Mar 8 Seraphim
Feb 2 The Trajectory of Her Legs
Feb 2 The Sonogram Technician
Feb 2 The Bath
Feb 2 Quickening
Feb 2 A Birthday in the Making
Jan 6 Guitar Lessons
Jan 6 Rage
Jan 6 $1,000 down
Jan 6 The Mystery of Footprints
Jan 5 Suburbia
2007
Dec 2 The Seven-Year-Old
Dec 2 Like Lambs
Dec 2 Do Not
Dec 2 When My Son Sees Me Through the Window
Nov 4 When You Go, What Will You Leave?
Nov 4 Flight of Fancy
Nov 4 Family Reunion
Nov 4 The Grandmother at the Ends of the Earth
Oct 7 Waiting, at 30 weeks
Oct 7 Being Pregnant
Oct 7 What You Wanted
Oct 7 Her Broken Ticking Clock
Sep 3 Eclipse Box
Sep 3 Preschool
Sep 3 Sins of Omission: Remembrance for a Birthday
Sep 3 Kindergarten Haircut
Sep 3 September Will Find Us
Aug 5 Another Winter Night
Aug 5 What You Lose If You Use Water as a Preservative
Aug 5 Short Tantrum on a Long Afternoon
Aug 5 Working Hands
Jun 20 Never
Jun 20 Miracle
Jun 20 Extinct
May 30 before father’s day
May 30 [untitled]
May 30 A Perfect Pair
May 30 bone of my bone
May 6 Chaos Theory
May 6 Two Beams of Fragile Light
May 6 I Chew on My Dog Driver
May 6 Demolition
Apr 1 Teresian Wells
Apr 1 And One More Mommy
Apr 1 planning
Apr 1 To My Third Child (A Son, Unborn)
Apr 1 Now Appearing
Mar 4 Step Parent (choir)
Mar 4 Almost Mine
Feb 4 She Is Four Months Old
Feb 4 A Poem Written in Ezra’s Sleep
Feb 4 Cold Sprite, Please, with a Side of Potatoes and Fraggles
Feb 4 La Llorona
Feb 4 SIDS
Jan 4 Matrioshka Dolls
Jan 4 Mid-Claire
Jan 4 Mother/Daughter Day
Jan 4 The Ripe Time
Jan 4 Birth in the Squatting Position
Jan 4 What I Would Show Her
2006
Nov 26 Air show on evening news
Nov 26 The Thing About Summer, or: On Having Visited Fort Ticonderoga Seven Times Since June
Nov 26 When He Returns
Nov 26 This
Nov 26 The wind is hymning the trees to readiness
Nov 26 Picnic in July
Nov 26 Born
Nov 4 Biological Determinism
Nov 4 proof
Nov 4 Women’s Work
Nov 4 At Bedtime
Nov 4 she would rather change her bones
Nov 4 Two Discoveries
Oct 5 Waiting for the Bus
Oct 5 Rapunzel’s Mother
Oct 5 Stillbirth
Oct 5 She
Oct 5 Betrayal
Oct 5 Demeter Takes Her Daughter to School
Oct 5 Today, She Arrived
Aug 27 Abortion (Like Motherhood) Changes Nothing
Aug 27 Six
Aug 27 Special Relativity
Aug 27 His mother
Aug 27 Too Much Work
Jul 20 Her Colors
Jul 20 Fireflies
Jul 20 After Pregnancy
Jul 20 Tender Button
Jul 20 Après Moi
Jul 3 Hush Little Baby
Jul 3 New Mother Alone
Jul 3 Big Woman
Jul 3 Stigmata
Jul 3 Errour’s Tale
Jul 3 Open Wide
May 13 Room for Two in the Blue Canoe
May 13 Poem for My Father
May 13 Telling Eileen
May 13 pregnancy
May 13 To the Father My Daughters Do Not Have,
Apr 25 Word-Girl
Apr 25 Plague
Apr 25 Tropical March
Apr 25 Loss
Apr 25 Mother
Apr 25 To Grandma Neva
Mar 17 My Life in Pajamas
Mar 17 Heart of Morning
Mar 17 Untitled
Mar 17 Sleep
Mar 17 Daybreak
Mar 17 Ironing Sheets
Mar 17 As I Walk
Feb 19 The Prodigal Wife
Feb 19 The Moth-Eaten World
Feb 19 Namaste
Feb 19 Legacy
Jan 30 Her Hands
Jan 15 On Science
Jan 15 Why I Didn’t Write a Poem
Jan 15 Phone Marrow
Jan 15 Home, I Say
Jan 15 I Will Hold You
Jan 15 The Book of Sleep (XXV)
2005
Dec 14 Singing as He Does
Dec 14 Boundary Man
Dec 14 Nighttime in the Country of New Mothers
Dec 14 Three Orange Nasturtiums
Dec 14 Ivory Bill
Nov 9 Lila: Found Poem
Nov 9 Unearthed
Nov 9 The Fight
Nov 9 Inkblot
Nov 9 Dishes
Oct 8 Walking Backward
Oct 8 Night-Night
Oct 8 She Rote
Sep 29 Fibonacci Numbers
Aug 20 Nameless Almost First
Aug 20 Birth, Still
Aug 20 Child of My Heart
Aug 20 This Is The Son
Aug 20 To the Baby Upstairs
Jul 28 Beautiful Daughter
Jul 28 Like an Old Lover
Jul 28 Pantry
Jul 26 The Night We Decide on Divorce
Jul 26 nighttime with dorothea
Jul 26 5:30 a.m. and inside the house
Jun 20 The Impatient Mother
Jun 20 Son of a Bitch
Jun 20 No!
Jun 20 Perspective
Jun 19 Redemption
Jun 19 Downstream
Jun 19 When I Awake, Daughter, What Matters
Jun 19 Dreams for Them
Jun 1 Preschool
Jun 1 Pregnancy
Jun 1 Through This
May 31 Layette
May 31 Outside Womb
May 31 Family Photo, 1975
May 2 maybe sometime snowflakes
May 2 Caught Before Flight
May 2 mother love
May 2 Fuel
May 2 Between Us
May 2 sacred ground
Mar 31 Mama’s Orange Robe
Mar 31 Circus Clown: Part I
Mar 31 Nebraska
Mar 30 Vigil at Four Months
Mar 30 Way to Go
Mar 30 Motherless World
Mar 2 Casi’s Face
Mar 2 At A Distance, Imperfectly
Mar 2 Wiping Bums
Mar 2 My Baby, Napping
Mar 2 Sweet dreams
Mar 2 Dressing
Jan 25 Diary of a Young Mother
Jan 25 Rules for New Parents
Jan 25 The Smallest Things
Jan 25 Mesozoic Mama
Jan 25 Packing the Car
Jan 6 All That There Is
Jan 6 Hospital Quartet
Jan 6 Festival
Jan 6 Swimming Lessons
Jan 6 Imagine if He Did
Jan 6 Babysitting
2004
Dec 7 Shared Custody
Dec 7 Necessary Turns
Dec 7 Meeting the Horizon with Connor at Nine Months
Dec 7 Overheard at Play Group
Dec 7 Fertility Restored
Dec 7 Lifeblood
Nov 24 Verses for the Early Child
Nov 24 Matinal
Nov 24 LiLi
Nov 24 Alterations
Nov 24 Testing the Seams
Oct 31 My Skin Became a Touchable Thing
Oct 30 Boyish Dreams of Manhood
Oct 30 Best Home
Oct 28 Daughter
Oct 28 Daddy Lover
Sep 30 It Could Be Me
Sep 29 Lesson from a Poet
Sep 29 Playthings of the Gods
Sep 29 Born
Sep 29 White Clouds on Blue Sky
Aug 17 Answers
Aug 17 The Juggler
Aug 17 The Goddess of Destiny
Aug 17 Woman Fables
Aug 17 The Carol Lawrence School of Dance
Jul 25 Sanctuary
Jul 25 Family Bed
Jul 25 Three Sons and a Cow
Jul 25 Moods (14 years old)
Jul 25 Edge of the Nest
Jul 25 See That?
Jun 29 Boy Child
Jun 29 Something New Under the Moon
Jun 29 Third Month
Jun 29 Not Mom
Jun 29 Thirteen Ways of Looking at Elmo
Jun 1 I tell my daughter
Jun 1 Miscarriage of an English Teacher
May 31 Grasping at Ghosts
May 25 Passage
May 25 Daughter
May 3 The Way Up Is the Way Down
Apr 20 Mouth
Apr 20 Sepia Photo — One-Room Schoolhouse 1917
Apr 20 Children Dancing
Apr 20 Alternation of Generation
Mar 24 Museum Piece
Mar 24 Dreaming the Meuse Lizard
Mar 24 Song for the first, when first conceived (of)
Mar 24 Old Body
Mar 24 Scottie
Mar 24 The Glossy Bodies of Peppers
Mar 2 Matermorphosis
Mar 2 Mommies
Mar 2 Seeing Babies
Feb 24 Weaning
Feb 24 Why I Write in the Bathroom Closet
Feb 24 Holy Water
Feb 24 And Still I Have Loved
Jan 29 Ghost Season
Jan 29 After The Bath
Jan 29 Mothering by Scent
Jan 29 The Vigil: A Pantoum
Jan 29 What Would Betty Do?
2003
Dec 29 Mother of Alphabets
Dec 29 The Beginning
Dec 29 Pushing 7 1/2, Falling into 8
Dec 29 The Quickening
Dec 29 Mothers Song
Dec 29 The Beginnings of Rain
Dec 1 Visiting My Daughter, an Exchange Student in Spain
Dec 1 To the Woman Who Left Her Old Age To Someone Older Than She Will Ever Be
Nov 29 Dream of the Night Key
Nov 29 My Middle Daughter, on the Edge of Adolescence, Learns to Play the Saxophone
Nov 29 Four a.m.
Nov 29 Morgans
Nov 29 Eclipse
Oct 18 Fan
Oct 18 Snow Plant
Oct 18 Slipping
Oct 18 Blowing Soap Bubbles
Oct 18 The Blue Snake Lies Curled in my Bowl Like Oatmeal
Oct 18 Perennial