| Mama, Come Back Mama, come back. |
| My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer When the moon appears |
| Jugglers She and I on a bench eating prawns |
| Kaddish, Part I Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on |
| The Player Queen My mother dandled me and sang |
| To My Mother To-day's your natal day |
| To My Mother You too, my mother, read my rhymes |
| To My Mother Because I feel that, in the Heavens above |
| To My Mother Waiting on 10/01/54 That October might have begun |
| The Visit |
| Picking Up During the depression |
| My Mother Would Be a Falconress My mother would be a falconress, |
| The Routine Things Around the House When Mother died |
| Exile The downward turning touch |
| My Mother's Funeral The rabbi doesn't say she was sly and peevish |
| Mother Ann Tells Lucy What Gave Her Joy A moment of understanding |
| Postpartum Childbirth was not dying nor defecating |
| My Mother Was No White Dove no dove at all, coo-rooing through the dusk |
| Lucky If you are lucky in this life, |
| Mother's Day I see her doing something simple, paying bills |
| She Leaves Me Again, Six Months Later The hillside was blocked |
| Untitled [A house just like his mother's] A house just like his mother's, |
| Disciplines [If there is prayer, there is a mother kneeling] If there is prayer, there is a mother kneeling |
| Parents What it must be like to be an angel |
| Chorus So who mothers the mothers |
| Wedding Cake Once on a plane |
| Mother Your love was like moonlight |
| Mother What you do with time |
| Mother o' Mine If I were hanged on the highest hill |
| [Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome] Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome |