FROM MOTHER

by Joanna M. Weston

I fell
from the open womb
of her body

and bled
my own children
into the future

to find
my own bleeding
an unhealed

stream linked
to all the women
I have known

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Joanna M. Weston. Canada. Has one cat, multiple spiders, a herd of deer, and two derelict hen-houses. Her middle-reader, Frame and The McGuire, published by Tradewind Books 2015; and poetry, A Bedroom of Searchlights, published by Inanna Publications, 2016. Other books listed at her blog: http://www.1960willowtree.wordpress.com/