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Cartoon of woman in a heart-shape shielding her beloved family

A family secret—a poem

August 9, 2019

Why a proud mother and grandmother does not write about her own children and grandchildren. A poem about superstition and the power of poetry.

In which I contemplate the relative scariness of a first pregnancy and old age. Preparing for old age is the scariest thing I have ever done in my life. Scarier than gliding. Scarier than windsurfing in a gale. Scarier than reading poems to an audience of 2000. Scarier than reading poems to the […]