Questions I’ve Always Been Too Afraid To Ask My Mother

1. Have you ever looked in a mirror and seen someone besides yourself? 2. Do you consider it postpartum if you still can’t bond with your children? 3. Are you mad because I don’t have your grandmother’s eyes? Something of your family to recognize, when you cannot identify fragments of fractured being, though you know…

A Poem about Love Without the Baggage of a Love Poem

If we are writing love poems, do they include the way forgiveness is not found in a mouth? But in gestures that are exclusionary of lips. I want to know where it is that I redeem myself in a love poem, or in a lover, or in love itself. Can I dedicate a love poem…