Jane Yolen Bambi Haiku An old book opens. A fawn loses his mother. Yes, there will be tears. A…
Browsing: Mother Figures
September 15, 2021 MER VOX Quarterly – Fall 2021 In this issue, two folios of work focus on…
Mother Figures – Other Mothers A MER VOX Folio “Mother Figures: Other Mothers” is the first of a series…
Margo Berdeshevsky SHE WASN’T QUITE MY MOTHER…BUT… I She wasn’t quite my mother. My elder “mother figure” friend would…
Donna Katzin For Ruth Bader Ginsberg At 87, she dies in childbirth on Erev Rosh Hashanah, as the new year…
Hilary King In an Almost Empty Room with Ellen Bryant Voigt Last-minute funding blows the poet into town. Little notice,…
Tsaurah Litzky Alba for my Grandmother You were cunning, strong, fierce as a she-bear with cubs, no less then death…
Anne Elezabeth Pluto Mother to Remember For MKS Your yahrzeit will arrive on the 20th of Av, 5780 Dog…
Golda Solomon my mother figure is jazz anna zack gave me life independence firecrackers announce my arrival round midnight…
Lisa C. Taylor Heirlooms for Annie She darkened windows to halt vertigo, brewed broth from chicken necks for migraines, buried…