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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
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('s) featured writer Kathy Anderson
two poems-- "Ghost Mother" and "I Can't Remember Talking to You"
GHOST MOTHER She is Put your arms around her solid waist You try it The ghost mother We search for her everywhere My sisters and I lie in bed The trouble with a ghost mother You can't ever put her down
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I CAN'T REMEMBER TALKING TO YOU But I want to It's like when you finally laid down Mother, you left us with nothing We are girls with missing parts You can't make me
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