Girl’s Childhood
You go to school and learnthere are places you can’ttake your mother.You’re surprised, but complacent.You grow able to play nearbywithout […]
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Single Parents
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Rough Ties: All Mothers Are Single
This isn’t epidurals, breastfeeding, or 2 a.m.white nights. This is about the long arc of letting go— single, partnered, or
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The God Box
An Essay One day I bring my daughter from our home in Washington, D.C., to New York to visit her
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On the Way to the Airport
You’re speeding me down the Ventura freeway in your battered Scout, patched since your angry crash into the drunken pole
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An Open Letter to Our Sperm Donor
Our daughter looks like me people say, the architectureof her eyebrows and pointed stare. But in
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Skinny Old Man with Shopping Cart
Skinny old man, you concave sliver, pushing your shopping cart down the street, where’s the old woman, short time ago