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

The Morning After the Oscars
by Laurie Barton

I am not
angry that I lost

Nor relaxing
with roses
my cellular
throbbing with calls

Not regretting
my gowned capture
by cameras
snap-clicking
like insects

No, simply facing
diapers and TV
No nanny cracking
Zwieback for my children

No sound but that of
cartoon ducks
quacking in tempos of Monday

Laurie Barton is a poet, fiction writer, and mother of three. Her work has appeared in Artisan and In Other Words.