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

Grandchild
by Terri Taylor Weiner

You would have been sweet
flavored by your extra
chromosome

loved
if given
the chance.

I stake soft lemon dahlias
lift a fallen branch
gather to the others.

It shows me
eight tiny buds
in thanks.


Terri Taylor Weiner is a Seattle poet.