Parenting

Tract by William Carlos Williams I will teach you my townspeople

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Infant Joy by William Blake I have no name

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

Lost in thought, the baby by Rebecca Wolff Primarily

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

To My Mother Waiting on 10/01/54 by Teresa Carson That October might have begun

You Begin by Margaret Atwood You begin this way:

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

Motherhood, 1951 by Ai Dear Saint Patrick, this is Peggy

Acrobat by Elise Paschen The night you were conceived

The Difference between a Child and a Poem by Michael Blumenthal If you are terrified of your own death

Shoulders by Naomi Shihab Nye A man crosses the street in rain

Before the Birth of One of Her Children by Anne Bradstreet All things within this fading world hath end