Poems

Before I had children. After I gave birth to two. B.C. and A.C. Was there a time before I became a mother? I don’t remember Not in the...

I held some grapes more than my hand could grasp. Some tumbled onto the floor and fled. I ran to retrieve them, as if someone stood...

I pushed and pushed A scream that echoed to the depths of the ocean hand in my partner’s hand I felt a slither schloop and something warm...

Has every human thought  Been already written  Drawn and painted Made and discarded?  Do we need another meticulously worded Juxtaposed...

I crossed the bridge Hoping to find the other half. Instead, only strange faces staring back With gestures and voices I didn't recognize...

In one single moment all a person’s cells and memories can detach and reassemble in another place, in another time. I’ve witnessed it....

My partner came to me Like a river finds the sea  But my children came to me Like a tidal wave to an unmoored fishing boat Suddenly...

Mama, I don’t know everything you went through but I do know it was a lot. And you had to fight just to survive. But look at you now. You...

Bang bang My school was shot down Bang bang There was no sound Bang bang Only words and crowds Bang bang Eight were holed out Bang bang A...

The modern mother  is made of spaghetti She’s hard at work But soft at play Thin and long She bends in many ways Throughout the day She...

No. I wasn’t ready to be let out Never taught how to fend for myself Living to please Believing it would set me free I didn’t know it yet...

Voices grow hoarse  Seeking for change There’s progress And then there’s tradition Written in the early mud banks  Where humans first...

Honestly, I was a mess. Tears round the clock except when I got some rest. Salt lined the edges, gathered into monumental crystals living...

Sorry Zara  I’m not a size small anymore My belly has grown and shrunk  Shifted and remade Held and caged  All My hopes and dreams It’s...

I danced around letters A to Z lost some characters in between developed some others unknowingly Most people have minds filled with neat...

Quasimodo was probably Just a stressed-out mother Back hunched, Eyes half-lidded, Balding, Styled like the peasants. Only the walls and...

When you pray, Is it to a man or a woman? I’m not religious, But lately I’ve been drawn to The synergy of motherhood A silent religion...

Oh the memory, it burns Like accidentally touching a still hot stove Oh please! I can’t be alive anymore Cover me, bury me 12 feet under...

A child takes and takes And takes And that’s ok They are the seeds Of the future evergreen And have you ever seen A poor potted plant...

She can barely utter a coherent sentence But her brain is as sharp  As a knife left at a crime scene Cloaked figures idling about Heads...