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April 19, 2022

Weeding – Part One

My Son is missing, but I have a feeling I know where he is. That sounds ridiculous, so allow me to explain. I don’t know his location, or the address, but I know where he’ll be. I know who he’s with. It’s those people. Those sick, sick people. They’ve got my Andrew. I’ve told the…

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April 3, 2022

Dear Annalynne McCord – If I Was Your Mother

Dear Annalynne McCord,I’m sorry that I was not your mother.If I was your mother,you would have been loved enough to know that a war is not the right time to center yourself.Held in the kind of esteem that makes you secure enough in yourself to offer real help, instead of attention seeking stunts with an…

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March 21, 2022

A Portrait Of My Motherhood, From The Perspective Of My Long Suffering First Born

7am, she was my alarm, loud lullabies at the wrong time of day, her voice following the melody of the clattering kitchen as I followed the smell of toast to the table. She had my school tie in her hands, throwing it to hands that were too tired to catch as her wife watched the…

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March 20, 2022

Mum

I was an early birthday present,presented after the fog of the anaesthetic had fallen away,tiny hands reaching for the only friend I had known, in the nine months I had been baking,longing for the fond familiarity of a mother’s mighty embrace. The blessed daughter of the vernal equinox,to be born of your light was a…

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March 11, 2022

The Last Thing He Said, In Silence

The last thing he said, in silence,was that my love was not enough for him to depend on.In the echoes of an empty hallway,his shadow, dancing in the distance,he was so clear, that he couldn’t give it all up for me. He used to carry me with him,like a lucky penny,or the hip flask full…

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Weeding – Part One

Dear Annalynne McCord – If I Was Your Mother

A Portrait Of My Motherhood, From The Perspective Of My Long Suffering First Born

Mum

The Last Thing He Said, In Silence