parenthood
Writing
For my mother
By Arden YumAfter Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Mother, tell me about the child in your womb.
mother's guilt
By Stephanie KI ate the placenta and the umbilical cord
(and i ate and i ate).
I tasted the iron on my teeth
(it stained until i swallowed and i swallowed the hydrogen peroxide).
31 lines for 31 days of knowing you
By Olivia Humphreyi have never loved another in the way i have found myself to love you.
i have loved you the way the sun loves the dandelions
and the way the tides love the moon.
i simply cannot imagine a world where we didn’t save one another.