Apron Strings
I have lied about my mother. She never wore aprons, regularly burned dinners. A student and teacher with four young […]
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The C-Section
for V.M., who gave birth to a healthy baby who the state immediately took away, charging cruelty and neglect due
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Pervert
The week before my mother died I went to a feminist theory seminar and even though I can describe myself
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A Timely Message
for my patient wife If ever comes too quickly, Leave Big Ben unwound. Very soon the hourglass will meter grain
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Stairway to Heaven Sonnet
Florida’s state bird is the crane, by which we mean green, orange, and yellow construction cranes that hang a mile
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Women
after Dorianne Laux’s “Men” It’s tough being a woman, feeling you’re an object to be bought, an elusive quarry, something