Parenting

Gods by Michael Redhill The gorse-edged trail, the path up through sheep laurel and sedge

Curriculum Vitae by Lisel Mueller I was born in a Free City, near the North Sea.

A Woman Waits for Me by Walt Whitman A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking,

The Author to Her Book by Anne Bradstreet Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,

After Making Love We Hear Footsteps by Galway Kinnell For I can snore like a bullhorn

Daughter-Mother-Maya-Seeta by Reetika Vazirani To replay errors

The Mother by Gwendolyn Brooks Abortions will not let you forget.

Tract by William Carlos Williams I will teach you my townspeople

Morning Song by Sylvia Plath Love set you going like a fat gold watch.

Central Park, Carousel by Meena Alexander June already, it's your birth month,

You Begin by Margaret Atwood You begin this way:

Infant Joy by William Blake I have no name

Honey by Arielle Greenberg I am three months out and six to go

The Sick Child by Robert Louis Stevenson O Mother, lay your hand on my brow!