Morals by Abigail Walthausen What can I give without Joseph, Doula and sheepwives and cowwives? A range of applied pieties,…
Browsing: It’s Complicated
To My Twenty-Six-Year-Old Daughter by Connie Post You are sitting in front of me two days before my hysterectomy…
Beta splendens (Siamese Fighting Fish) by Paulette A. Pashibin Beautiful carnivores: curious, watchful, with strange appetites. Females eat their…
dark angel (from calvary) by eve packer all you’ll ever be is a one-nite stand says my mother, at…
Daughter by Marjorie Maddox Always, I have grieved this day. Gone and not-gone. Your silence, thick, betrays. Always I…
Aversion by Erica Hoffmeister There is (a rather common, I’m told) condition similar to postpartum depression, similar to PTSD,…
Mother Musing by Sally Donaldson I am the cruise director on a ship of fools. I organize my motley…
Gifts by Patrice Boyer Claeys From Mother: a crystal bowl—sleek sides tapering to weighted base lead-heavy, incised, its clean…
Dear Matthew by Brenda Bellinger No doubt this letter has already been opened for you. I’m trying to picture…