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To My Daughter, After a Fight
Swimming (Stretchmarks)
Dead Man’s Float
How to disappoint your mother
The Last Page
Christina
Iron
Ethan and Lily, After School
Mom Art
so much deepens
pieces of a liquid puzzle
Rain
Turn the Fire Off
Skating with Tropes
Ogunquit
Learning to Paint at Age 45
Phases
Tangled
Seraphim
The Trajectory of Her Legs
The Sonogram Technician
The Bath
Quickening
A Birthday in the Making
Guitar Lessons
Rage
$1,000 down
The Mystery of Footprints
Suburbia
The Seven-Year-Old
Like Lambs
Do Not
When My Son Sees Me Through the Window
When You Go, What Will You Leave?
Flight of Fancy
Family Reunion
The Grandmother at the Ends of the Earth
Waiting, at 30 weeks
Being Pregnant
What You Wanted
Her Broken Ticking Clock
Eclipse Box
Preschool
Sins of Omission: Remembrance for a Birthday
Kindergarten Haircut
September Will Find Us
Another Winter Night
What You Lose If You Use Water as a Preservative
Short Tantrum on a Long Afternoon
Working Hands
Never
Miracle
Extinct
before father’s day
[untitled]
A Perfect Pair
bone of my bone
Chaos Theory
Two Beams of Fragile Light
I Chew on My Dog Driver
Demolition
Teresian Wells
And One More Mommy
planning
To My Third Child (A Son, Unborn)
Now Appearing
Step Parent (choir)
Almost Mine
She Is Four Months Old
A Poem Written in Ezra’s Sleep
Cold Sprite, Please, with a Side of Potatoes and Fraggles
La Llorona
SIDS
Matrioshka Dolls
Mid-Claire
Mother/Daughter Day
The Ripe Time
Birth in the Squatting Position
What I Would Show Her
Air show on evening news
The Thing About Summer, or: On Having Visited Fort Ticonderoga Seven Times Since June
When He Returns
This
The wind is hymning the trees to readiness
Picnic in July
Born
Biological Determinism
proof
Women’s Work
At Bedtime
she would rather change her bones
Two Discoveries
Waiting for the Bus
Rapunzel’s Mother
Stillbirth
She
Betrayal
Demeter Takes Her Daughter to School
Today, She Arrived
Abortion (Like Motherhood) Changes Nothing
Six
Special Relativity
His mother
Too Much Work
Her Colors
Fireflies
After Pregnancy
Tender Button
Après Moi
Hush Little Baby
New Mother Alone
Big Woman
Stigmata
Errour’s Tale
Open Wide
Room for Two in the Blue Canoe
Poem for My Father
Telling Eileen
pregnancy
To the Father My Daughters Do Not Have,
Word-Girl
Plague
Tropical March
Loss
Mother
To Grandma Neva
My Life in Pajamas
Heart of Morning
Untitled
Sleep
Daybreak
Ironing Sheets
As I Walk
The Prodigal Wife
The Moth-Eaten World
Namaste
Legacy
Her Hands
On Science
Why I Didn't Write a Poem
Phone Marrow
Home, I Say
I Will Hold You
The Book of Sleep (XXV)
Singing as He Does
Boundary Man
Nighttime in the Country of New Mothers
Three Orange Nasturtiums
Ivory Bill
Lila: Found Poem
Unearthed
The Fight
Inkblot
Dishes
Walking Backward
Night-Night
She Rote
Fibonacci Numbers
Nameless Almost First
Birth, Still
Child of My Heart
This Is The Son
To the Baby Upstairs
Beautiful Daughter
Like an Old Lover
Pantry
The Night We Decide on Divorce
nighttime with dorothea
5:30 a.m. and inside the house
The Impatient Mother
Son of a Bitch
No!
Perspective
Redemption
Downstream
When I Awake, Daughter, What Matters
Dreams for Them
Preschool
Pregnancy
Through This
Layette
Outside Womb
Family Photo, 1975
maybe sometime snowflakes
Caught Before Flight
mother love
Fuel
Between Us
sacred ground
Mama's Orange Robe
Circus Clown: Part I
Nebraska
Vigil at Four Months
Way to Go
Motherless World
Casi's Face
At A Distance, Imperfectly
Wiping Bums
My Baby, Napping
Sweet dreams
Dressing
Diary of a Young Mother
Rules for New Parents
The Smallest Things
Mesozoic Mama
Packing the Car
All That There Is
Hospital Quartet
Festival
Swimming Lessons
Imagine if He Did
Babysitting
Shared Custody
Necessary Turns
Meeting the Horizon with Connor at Nine Months
Overheard at Play Group
Fertility Restored
Lifeblood
Verses for the Early Child
Matinal
LiLi
Alterations
Testing the Seams
My Skin Became a Touchable Thing
Boyish Dreams of Manhood
Best Home
Daughter
Daddy Lover
It Could Be Me
Lesson from a Poet
Playthings of the Gods
Born
White Clouds on Blue Sky
Answers
The Juggler
The Goddess of Destiny
Woman Fables
The Carol Lawrence School of Dance
Sanctuary
Family Bed
Three Sons and a Cow
Moods (14 years old)
Edge of the Nest
See That?
Boy Child
Something New Under the Moon
Third Month
Not Mom
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Elmo
I tell my daughter
Miscarriage of an English Teacher
Grasping at Ghosts
Passage
Daughter
The Way Up Is the Way Down
Mouth
Sepia Photo -- One-Room Schoolhouse 1917
Children Dancing
Alternation of Generation
Museum Piece
Dreaming the Meuse Lizard
Song for the first, when first conceived (of)
Old Body
Scottie
The Glossy Bodies of Peppers
Matermorphosis
Mommies
Seeing Babies
Weaning
Why I Write in the Bathroom Closet
Holy Water
And Still I Have Loved
Ghost Season
After The Bath
Mothering by Scent
The Vigil: A Pantoum
What Would Betty Do?
Mother of Alphabets
The Beginning
Pushing 7 1/2, Falling into 8
The Quickening
Mothers Song
The Beginnings of Rain
Visiting My Daughter, an Exchange Student in Spain
To the Woman Who Left Her Old Age To Someone Older Than She Will Ever Be
Dream of the Night Key
My Middle Daughter, on the Edge of Adolescence, Learns to Play the Saxophone
Four a.m.
Morgans
Eclipse
Fan
Snow Plant
Slipping
Blowing Soap Bubbles
The Blue Snake Lies Curled in my Bowl Like Oatmeal
Perennial




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Literary Mama About Us Submissions Contact Privacy Policy Literary Mama Bookshop Literary Mama Gear Powered by Movable Type 3.16	Poetry To My Daughter, After a Fight Swimming (Stretchmarks) Dead Man’s Float How to disappoint your mother The Last Page Christina Iron Ethan and Lily, After School Mom Art so much deepens pieces of a liquid puzzle Rain Turn the Fire Off Skating with Tropes Ogunquit Learning to Paint at Age 45 Phases Tangled Seraphim The Trajectory of Her Legs The Sonogram Technician The Bath Quickening A Birthday in the Making Guitar Lessons Rage $1,000 down The Mystery of Footprints Suburbia The Seven-Year-Old Like Lambs Do Not When My Son Sees Me Through the Window When You Go, What Will You Leave? Flight of Fancy Family Reunion The Grandmother at the Ends of the Earth Waiting, at 30 weeks Being Pregnant What You Wanted Her Broken Ticking Clock Eclipse Box Preschool Sins of Omission: Remembrance for a Birthday Kindergarten Haircut September Will Find Us Another Winter Night What You Lose If You Use Water as a Preservative Short Tantrum on a Long Afternoon Working Hands Never Miracle Extinct before father’s day [untitled] A Perfect Pair bone of my bone Chaos Theory Two Beams of Fragile Light I Chew on My Dog Driver Demolition Teresian Wells And One More Mommy planning To My Third Child (A Son, Unborn) Now Appearing Step Parent (choir) Almost Mine She Is Four Months Old A Poem Written in Ezra’s Sleep Cold Sprite, Please, with a Side of Potatoes and Fraggles La Llorona SIDS Matrioshka Dolls Mid-Claire Mother/Daughter Day The Ripe Time Birth in the Squatting Position What I Would Show Her Air show on evening news The Thing About Summer, or: On Having Visited Fort Ticonderoga Seven Times Since June When He Returns This The wind is hymning the trees to readiness Picnic in July Born Biological Determinism proof Women’s Work At Bedtime she would rather change her bones Two Discoveries Waiting for the Bus Rapunzel’s Mother Stillbirth She Betrayal Demeter Takes Her Daughter to School Today, She Arrived Abortion (Like Motherhood) Changes Nothing Six Special Relativity His mother Too Much Work Her Colors Fireflies After Pregnancy Tender Button Après Moi Hush Little Baby New Mother Alone Big Woman Stigmata Errour’s Tale Open Wide Room for Two in the Blue Canoe Poem for My Father Telling Eileen pregnancy To the Father My Daughters Do Not Have, Word-Girl Plague Tropical March Loss Mother To Grandma Neva My Life in Pajamas Heart of Morning Untitled Sleep Daybreak Ironing Sheets As I Walk The Prodigal Wife The Moth-Eaten World Namaste Legacy Her Hands On Science Why I Didn't Write a Poem Phone Marrow Home, I Say I Will Hold You The Book of Sleep (XXV) Singing as He Does Boundary Man Nighttime in the Country of New Mothers Three Orange Nasturtiums Ivory Bill Lila: Found Poem Unearthed The Fight Inkblot Dishes Walking Backward Night-Night She Rote Fibonacci Numbers Nameless Almost First Birth, Still Child of My Heart This Is The Son To the Baby Upstairs Beautiful Daughter Like an Old Lover Pantry The Night We Decide on Divorce nighttime with dorothea 5:30 a.m. and inside the house The Impatient Mother Son of a Bitch No! Perspective Redemption Downstream When I Awake, Daughter, What Matters Dreams for Them Preschool Pregnancy Through This Layette Outside Womb Family Photo, 1975 maybe sometime snowflakes Caught Before Flight mother love Fuel Between Us sacred ground Mama's Orange Robe Circus Clown: Part I Nebraska Vigil at Four Months Way to Go Motherless World Casi's Face At A Distance, Imperfectly Wiping Bums My Baby, Napping Sweet dreams Dressing Diary of a Young Mother Rules for New Parents The Smallest Things Mesozoic Mama Packing the Car All That There Is Hospital Quartet Festival Swimming Lessons Imagine if He Did Babysitting Shared Custody Necessary Turns Meeting the Horizon with Connor at Nine Months Overheard at Play Group Fertility Restored Lifeblood Verses for the Early Child Matinal LiLi Alterations Testing the Seams My Skin Became a Touchable Thing Boyish Dreams of Manhood Best Home Daughter Daddy Lover It Could Be Me Lesson from a Poet Playthings of the Gods Born White Clouds on Blue Sky Answers The Juggler The Goddess of Destiny Woman Fables The Carol Lawrence School of Dance Sanctuary Family Bed Three Sons and a Cow Moods (14 years old) Edge of the Nest See That? Boy Child Something New Under the Moon Third Month Not Mom Thirteen Ways of Looking at Elmo I tell my daughter Miscarriage of an English Teacher Grasping at Ghosts Passage Daughter The Way Up Is the Way Down Mouth Sepia Photo -- One-Room Schoolhouse 1917 Children Dancing Alternation of Generation Museum Piece Dreaming the Meuse Lizard Song for the first, when first conceived (of) Old Body Scottie The Glossy Bodies of Peppers Matermorphosis Mommies Seeing Babies Weaning Why I Write in the Bathroom Closet Holy Water And Still I Have Loved Ghost Season After The Bath Mothering by Scent The Vigil: A Pantoum What Would Betty Do? Mother of Alphabets The Beginning Pushing 7 1/2, Falling into 8 The Quickening Mothers Song The Beginnings of Rain Visiting My Daughter, an Exchange Student in Spain To the Woman Who Left Her Old Age To Someone Older Than She Will Ever Be Dream of the Night Key My Middle Daughter, on the Edge of Adolescence, Learns to Play the Saxophone Four a.m. Morgans Eclipse Fan Snow Plant Slipping Blowing Soap Bubbles The Blue Snake Lies Curled in my Bowl Like Oatmeal Perennial