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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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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

Talking Heads, "Once in a Lifetime"
Rinky Dink Miniature Golf jingle ("For the small golfer in all of us...")
Laurie Anderson, "O Superman"
Porgy and Bess medley (including "Summertime," "I Got Plenty of Nothin'," and "Clara")
Rickie Lee Jones, "We Belong Together"

Songs I Get in My Head All Day Now That I Am a Mother

"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"
Dora the Explorer theme song
"I Dig Dirt" (usually known as "Frere Jacques")
"Magic Music Box" from Dora the Explorer ("Oingy boingy boingy bing...")
"Beautiful Roses" (atonal composition by my three-year-old)


Jessy Randall has written for McSweeney's, Mudfish, Verbatim: The Language Quarterly, and Brain, Child. Her essay "The Mathematics of Motherhood" recently appeared in Eclectica (www.eclectica.org). She lives in Colorado Springs with her husband, sister-in-law, and two small children.