poetry on mamazine:

Thunder
by Angela Papalas

Snow keeps us in
by Maria Scala

The Radio Program
by Kristin Berger

Secret Playdate
by Kristina Lucenko

Rescue
by Mary Langer Thompson

navel gazing
by MaryAnn McKibben Dana

at 30 weeks
by MaryAnn McKibben Dana

Feeding
by Maureen Tolman Flannery

A Dozen Years After I Rounded With the Seed of Her
by Maureen Tolman Flannery

What Say You?
by Heather Rader


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POETRY

Rescue
by Mary Langer Thompson

I swore I wouldn't help you out again—
after the grade school peeing contest,
after the lost middle school essays,
after the high school report card you changed.
But here I am,
credit card and phone in hand
listening to Celine Dion,
hoping someone answers
by 5:00 p.m.,
before they turn off your power.

Mary Langer Thompson has won poetry and essay awards and is currently a school principal. Her poetry has appeared online and in Miller's Pond, The Peralta Press, Alligator Juniper, Earth's Daughters, Judd's Hill, and San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly and in the anthologies So Luminous the Wildflowers: An Anthology of California Poets (Tebot Bach), A Time of Trial (Hidden Book Press), and Electric Rain (Archer Books). She recently moved to Apple Valley, California with her husband, Dave, to open a new school. Poetry keeps her balanced and sane.