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Grandchild
by Terri Taylor Weiner
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by Rick Chamberlin
Rooting
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by Rochelle Ratner
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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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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.
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