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		Poems About Mothers
		Disciplines [If there is prayer, there is a mother kneeling] by Dawn Lundy Martin

		Kaddish, Part I by Allen Ginsberg

		Exile by Alicia Suskin Ostriker

		Getting Close by Victoria Redel

		Jugglers by Francisco Aragón

		Lucky by Tony Hoagland

		Mama, Come Back by Nellie Wong

		Metamorphosis by James Richardson

		Mother by Herman de Coninck

		Mother by Lola Ridge

		Mother Ann Tells Lucy What Gave Her Joy by Arra Lynn Ross

		Mother o' Mine by Rudyard Kipling

		Mother's Day by David Young

		My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer by Mark Strand

		My Mother Was No White Dove by Reginald Shepherd

		My Mother Would Be a Falconress by Robert Duncan

		My Mother's Funeral by Ira Sadoff

		Parents by William Meredith

		Picking Up by Evelyn Duncan

		Poems about Motherhood

		Postpartum by Hiromi Itō

		She Leaves Me Again, Six Months Later by Collier Nogues

		The Player Queen by W. B. Yeats

		The Routine Things Around the House by Stephen Dunn

		The Visit by Jason Shinder

		To My Mother by Robert Louis Stevenson

		To My Mother by Edgar Allan Poe

		To My Mother by Christina Rossetti

		To My Mother Waiting on 10/01/54 by Teresa Carson

		Untitled [A house just like his mother's] by Gregory Orr

		Wedding Cake by Naomi Shihab Nye

		[Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome] by Christina Rossetti

Chorus
by Catherine Barnett

So who mothers the mothers who tend the hallways of mothers, the spill of mothers, the smell of mothers, who mend the eyes of mothers, the lies of mothers scared to turn on lights in basements filled with mothers called by mothers in the dark, the kin of mothers, the gin of mothers, mothers out on bail, who mothers the hail-mary mothers asleep in their stockings while the crows sing heigh ho carrion crow, fol de riddle, lol de riddle, carry on, carry on—

From The Game of Boxes by Catherine Barnett. Copyright © 2012 by Catherine Barnett. Published by Graywolf Press. Used by permission of the publisher. All rights reserved.