Evie Shockley Mother Poems
- 1. Where Is It Clean
when your mother can rise from her place
on the pew during the early service,
early enough that the sun barely fills the sky
... - 2. Notes To My Nieces (or, Essays In Fortune-telling )
when i was younger, trees
were green, money was green, money
grew on trees, or trees grew up
and became money. now, money is clearly
... - 3. From The Lost Letters Of Frederick Douglass
Dear Daughter,
Can you be fifty-three this
month? I still look for you to peek around
my door as if you'd discovered a toy
... - 4. Lifeline
earth as a dissolute sky dissolves,
a mozambican woman turns mother,
her water breaking loose to pool with the flood
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