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Tea Leaves: a memoir of mothers and daughters by Janet Mason (Bella Books April 2012) is now available -- click here for more info
amusejanetmason.com ('s) featured writer
Karen Mittelman -- two poems: Leaving & Punishment
Leaving orginally appeared
in the August 2001 of the Red River Review
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Click here to read Karen's words on Tea Leaves: a memoir of mothers and daughters by Janet Mason
Leaving
the mother's poem
Whose story is she living inside now,
She holds the weight of Her palms will twitch
She knows only
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Punishment
Her mother's face is enormous
She is afraid to breathe
For the rest of her days
Years later when she goes
They tell her to try a different bra, The EKG doesn't show
Like a grandmother
Karen Mittelman Both a mother and a stepmother, Karen Mittelman has been writing poetry, fiction and non-fiction for over twenty years. Her work has appeared in Fireweed, Red River Review, and the Comstock Review, among other journals. Her first novel, Force of Nature, recently won second prize for literary fiction in a nationwide contest sponsored by the Maryland Writers' Association. Karen has a Ph.D. in American History from the University of Pennsylvania, and has taught both history and writing. She lives and works in Owings, Maryland, a small town near the Chesapeake Bay, where she is working to create a charter school focusing on the creative arts and environmental education.
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