Potential Titles: Mother

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Just like my mother's hands over her wheel - Mary Alexandra Agner "Adero's Wheel"

When Ganesh marries my mother - Mike Allen "The Journey to Kailash"

My mother's blood and my father's name - Key Ballah "Skin & Sun"

My mother's zigzag pattern of static - Mary Jo Bang "Me, a Chronicle"

The memory of my mother's table - Richard Blanco "Maine Yet Miami"

Alone with the voice of my mother - Wendy Chen "Fastened V"

Who will replace the blood of my mother in me - Lisa Ciccarello "A Water Woman Has No Body"

your mother's face turned to water - Lucille Clifton "memory"

Holy Mother of Arsenic and Lead - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"

The apple green water of my mother's youthful memory - Jasmeet Dosanjh "A Spirit Friend"

The mother of the stars and winds - Edward Dowden "Helena"

Even though my mother kept warning us - Denise Duhamel "Poem in Which My Mother Snapped"

Her mother's ring gilded in dust - Diamond Forde "Rememory"

Mothers with secrets know better - Elisheva Fox "Tzedek: The Wild Hunt"

The echo of your mother's name - torrin a. greathouse "Phlebotomy, as Told by the Blood"

The dreams of mothers with no children - Terrance Hayes "God Is an American"

More saints for Augustine's mother - Brenda Hillman "Sediments of Santa Monica"

Mother of all my future memories - Aldous Huxley "Formal Verses I"

The boiling grief of my mother's prayers - Maria Ibarra-Frayre "Awareness"

Selling the stars to our mothers - Allison Eir Jenks "War Tribes"

The mother of invention and the sister of theft - Sandra Kasturi "Carnaval Perpetuel"

The mother of material travel - Amy King "Baudelaire in Airports"

By the feet of the mother immortal - Archibald Lampman "Inter Vias"

The mother with her brood of stars - Archibald Lampman "The Return of the Year"

Sing sweet songs to our mother - Archibald Lampman "Song of the Stream-Drops"

Who wouldn't stay for his mother's madness - Susan Landgraf "Flower"

The mermaid is mother to me - Andrew Lang "A Lady of High Degree"

Mother of Change and Fate - Emma Lazarus "1492"

A mother that exists only in user manuals - Angela Liu "The Machine Family"

Every single word my mother could not whisper - W.J. Lofton "The Lord is American"

when my father reprograms my mother - Caroline Mao "When My Father Reprograms My Mother {"

my mother becomes unbreakable angles - Caroline Mao "When My Father Reprograms My Mother {"

Hoarded by the ancient mother of roots - Pablo Neruda "The Earth" transl. by Richard Schaaf

The profligate mother of roots - Pablo Neruda "Ode to the Earth" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

Each bone of my mother's regret - Hieu Minh Nguyen "I Want Nothing"

The hot coins of my mother's silver - Grace Nichols "Masquerade"

Some ghosts are my mothers - Kiki Petrosino "Ghosts"

White-winged mother of crags - E.J. Pratt "Re-Born"

In the memory my mother shares - Joy Priest "Denial is a Cliff We Are Driven Over"

Once stole from underneath my mother's dream - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "Is it distance or is it a far god?"

An echo of her mother's absence - Kadijah Queen "Season of Grief"

Abiding brood of those ancient mothers - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

The only thing whispering darkness into my mother's eyes - Abdulrazaq Salihu "Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis"

Mother of beauty, mother of joy - Sappho "XII" (translated by Bliss Carman)

A quilt my mother embroidered - Taije Silverman "Armageddon"

I have been a mother to geese - Gerald Stern "Egg"

The moon is the mother of pathos and pity - Wallace Stevens "Lunar Paraphrase"

Death is the mother of beauty - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"

Mother of loves and hours - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Mother of mutable winds and hours - Algernon Charles Swinburne "The Triumph of Time"

Where my mother's seven guitars sleep - Amber Tamblyn "Epilogue"

Mother of mirrors, angel of the acts - Karen Volkman "Sonnet [Laughing below, the unimagined room]"

In light angled by your mother's anger - T.D. Walker "The Lunar Colony AI Begins to Build a Monument to the Programmer's Father"

Earth is a jealous mother - Thomas Walsh "Coelo et in Terra"

Great mother of eternal sleep - Oscar Wilde "The Grave of Shelley"

Your mother and cradle - Allan Wolf "Earth: Your Mother I'll Be"

Left lingering in Mother's trail - Allan Wolf "Shooting Stars: Perseid Meteor Shower"

Death is the mother of nothing - Charles Wright "Twilight of the Dogs"

Our mothers cast us out as demons - Emanuel Xavier "Après le Feu"

Mother of Stone, Cybele - Stephen Yenser "Petition on Santorini"


Gave his motherboard its own mirror - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"


Singing the song of motherhood - Angel Leal "My Mother Dreams of Endlessness"

The molten heart of motherhood - Rachel Zucker "Paying Down the Debt: Happiness"


To see their mother-root - George Herbert "The Flower"


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