poetry on mamazine:

To Alecia at Four Weeks
by Joan A. Monheit

For Sasha on Her Fifteenth Birthday
by Joan A. Monheit

Dark Side
by DeAnna Jones

The shadow
by DeAnna Jones

Toughen Up
by Robin Mullery

track two (night dream)
by Judy Halebsky

On the Coast
by Judy Halebsky

Home Schooling
by Elsie Whitlow Feliz

Dream World
by Madeline Sharples

Black Bomber
by Madeline Sharples


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POETRY

Thoughts on Maternity
by Jackie Cornog

Narrow ledges
not wide enough
for hauling and guiding,
my hips aren't ready.

A friend's newborn
pressed to my chest
like a tern searching shells,
mouth pecking at flatness.

Some women hear clocks ticking
For me, the sound is like water
washing up and back.
I could listen forever.

Jackie Cornog, at an early age, would be hoisted up on the counter to recite "The Purple Cow" by customer demand at her parents' luncheonette in South Jersey. Since then, Jackie has been the recipient of several poetry awards, including, The Academy of American Poets Award, The Lillian Lorraine Jones Memorial Prize for Creative Writing, and the David A. Kennedy Memorial Prize for Poetry. Her poems have been published in Poetry Motel, The Watermark, Ha! and The Boston Poet. Jackie is currently a professor of Creative Writing and Composition at the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology in Boston.