Abriana Jetté Persephone Responds Fast ships slow snakes at the bottom of the sea. Every earth born creature stood still the day he came for me. The downward dive compels a Vesuvian festoon a vertiginous release that smells like…
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Tina Kelley Just One More, Mama “Wicked” and “step” are the only kinds of mothers. Name one mom left breathing in Disneyland. Orphaned: Bambi, Cinderella, Snow White. Scraping by with just dad: Belle, Jasmine, Ariel. Sent to inadequate foster…
Michael Montlack Stevie Nicks as Fairy Godmother How we run to her, extending our hearts skinned like knees, knowing she has the bandage. A twirl of gauze. Hoarse from all her hollering: Beware love! Look how it’s sent me…
Mireya Perez-Bustillo A Cow Jumped Over the Moon To a bovine dubbed Molly Return to “Storied Mothers.” Mireya Perez -Bustillo’s poetry searches for…
Jeri Theriault Demeter in the sixth stage of grief Return to “Storied Mothers.” Jeri Theriault’s poetry collections include Radost, My Red and the…
Sherre Vernon Photograph, As I’d Have You See Me Return to “Storied Mothers.” Sherre Vernon (she/her/hers) is the author two award-winning chapbooks: Green Ink Wings (fiction), and The Name…
Jane Yolen Bambi Haiku An old book opens. A fawn loses his mother. Yes, there will be tears. A child ‘s first movie. My age? I was only four. The skunk was no help. I kept on screaming: “Bad…
Fifty Plus and Fabulous: We Write our Stories! A MER VOX Folio Curated by JP Howard Featured Writers Catherine Gigante-Brown H.E. Fisher Shalewa Mackall Lynne McEniry Theta Pavis Martina Green McGowan Cheryl J. Fish Kathy Engel Annis Cassells Golda…
Catherine Gigante-Brown Poem to My Younger Self Dear Cat, You couldn’t possibly imagine how it would turn out. Sometimes you wished you would die from the pain of not belonging, of not being like anyone else. But this uniqueness,…
H.E. Fisher When My Child Tells Me He is Her I give her the dress that no longer fits, take the waist in like breath— a fabric my hands wove, dye blue and pink baby blankets the colors of…