poetry on mamazine:

Grandchild
by Terri Taylor Weiner

Hard Scrabble
by Rick Chamberlin

Rooting
by Tonya Ward Singer

Resting State (for my mother)
by Rafaella Del Bourgo

Mom With Headache Lets Son Drive to School
by Rochelle Ratner

Songs I Used to Get in My Head All Day and Songs I Get in My Head All Day Now That I Am a Mother
by Jessy Randall

Folding Laundry
by Theresa McCourt

Daughter's Gnashing of Teeth
by Maureen Tolman Flannery

Firstborn
by Sally Goade

My Mother's Closets
by Sally Goade


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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.