Lullabies & Confessions: Poetic Explorations of Parenting Across the Lifespan

Acknowledgments
Foreword by Barbara Williams & Heather Williams
Introduction

Poems
The Light Inside – Alan King
Icarus’s Mother Talks to Her Son – Lois Marie Harrod
Mother by Any Means – Ellaraine Lockie
Not My Mother’s Daughter – Lisa Xochitl Vallejos
Every Version – Louis Hoffman
By What Right? – Tom Greening
Fear of Heights – Carol Barrett
The Day She Stopped Telling Me Everything – Maura Snell
I Hold a Small Death… – Christina Lovin
Bitties Turning 4 – Marion Deutsche Cohen
Right Field Siberia – Charlotte Mandel
The Genes of Guilt – Patricia Wellingham-Jones
Why I Chose My Parents – Shoshauna Shy
Ice Storm – W. F. Lantry
Night Fear – Charles Rossiter
Definition – Marilyn Zelke Windau
The Hundred Names of Love – Annie Lighthart
I Go Back in Time and Rescue My Mother – Leah Browning
She’s Moved to the Other Side of the World – Phyllis Wax
A Family Affair – Carol Barrett
Going to Meet Our Birth Daughter After Nineteen Years – Maura Snell
I Want to Be Ready – Louis Hoffman
I Never Called Him Foster – Nathaniel Granger, Jr.
The Catch – W. F. Lantry
At Jack London State Historic Park – Shahé Mankerian
The Matter of Smiles – Marion Deutsche Cohen
My Window – Evgeny Krayushkin-ZheKa
Learning from the Landscape – Carol Dorf
Two Balloons – Michael Moats
Empty Nest– Michele Riedel
A Mother is Gathering Pens… – Marilyn Flower
Mother and Son – Nesreen Frost
Zoe Dances – Milton J. Bates
Swedish Rye – Christina Lovin
The Heart’s Dark Rooms – Brenda Yates
Waiting on My Daughter’s Night Class – Carol Barrett
Packing a Box to Send Home from My Daughter’s House in Portland – Shoshauna Shy
Playing in the Sprinkler – Patricia Wellingham-Jones
Brown Chair – Louis Hoffman
The Orphan – Juanita Ratner
Whiskers – Kimberly Weikert
Haiku for a Wanted Child – Christina Lovin
Arguing the Curriculum: Coleslaw – Carol Barrett
Daughter in Her Eighth Month – Felice Aull
My Father – Tom Greening
The Glass of Water – Jeff Santosuosso
At the Doorstep – John C. Mannone
Every Mother’s Son – Marcella Remund
Next Steps? – Rodger E. Broomé
Photograph – Maura Snell
My Father at Ninety-Two, Splitting the Days – Charlotte Mandel
Necessary Condolences – Ronnie Hess
By Love – Veronica Lac
Hydro Superintendent – Joanne Corey
The Emerald – Nathaniel Granger, Jr.
My Imperfect Perfect Son – Louis Hoffman
My Son the Artist – Michael Harty
Wrenhouse – W. F. Lantry
How it Feels – Alan King
That Time Comes – Patricia Wellingham-Jones
A Heart Attack – Michael Waterson
A Few Unheard Words – W. F. Lantry
St. Dominic – Marcella Remund
What Goes Around – Ellaraine Lockie
Faerie Panic – Daniel Ari
Four Months – Alan King
Risk – Maura Snell
The Art of War – Shahé Mankerian
Bird-Boy: Eve Remembering Abel – Charlotte Mandel
Insomnia Immediately Post-Partum – Marion Deutsche Cohen
Inside, Looking Out – Felice Aull
Counterpoint – Carol Barrett
Brushing My Mother’s Teeth – Christina Lovin
The Mother of the Bride Smiles – Phyllis Wax
Daddy–Daughter Dance – Lisa Xochitl Vallejos
The Night He Broke His Collarbone- Leah Browning
Binky Bond – Marilyn Zelke Windau
Light Rain – Annie Lighthart
Skating with Our Daughter on Veteran’s Day – Carol Barrett
Crossing from One Continent to the Next – Leah Browning
Fruit of Stories – Carol Dorf
The Child – Juanita Ratner
The Talk – Louis Hoffman
Walk – Marilyn Zelke Windau
The Message – Annie Lighthart
Morning, Third Sunday in June – Phyllis Wax
Photograph, 1975 – Christina Lovin
My Mother’s Power – Felice Aull
The Smell of Pine – John C. Mannone
Private Enterprise – Marion Deutsche Cohen
Sleeping Child – Charlotte Mandel
Watch – Maura Snell
Invocation – Marcella Remund
Mom Raps Me on the Knuckles – Lois Marie Harrod
Comforting Jack When He Wakes Coughing and Crying with a Cold – Charles Rossiter
Sea Creatures – Patricia Wellingham-Jones
After She Tells You – Maura Snell
The College of Mothers – Shoshauna Shy
The Interview – Michele Riedel
Father Hunger – Michael J. Gargano
Return – W. F. Lantry
Rehearsals – Brenda Yates
Impelled Toward Light – Carol Barrett
Winning Ways – Carl “Papa” Palmer
Night Fears – Louis Hoffman

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