Issue 22 - 1992
Issue 22 - 1992
Issue 22 - 1992
You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
Coe Review • <strong>Issue</strong> <strong>22</strong><br />
Sixth Month<br />
Alexa Fenske<br />
the three mothers mine<br />
an unusual story<br />
worse now that I too<br />
shall be a mother<br />
the first mother<br />
tall and beautiful<br />
covered with Indian jewelry<br />
myself at twelve clumsy<br />
they cancel school<br />
people come from Europe<br />
to pay their last respects<br />
the second mother comes too<br />
in the midst of a nasty divorce<br />
but I don’t remember seeing her<br />
or if she said something nice<br />
and after they marry she says<br />
my first mother<br />
was a horrible person<br />
that my father was better off without<br />
while he cried in a doorway<br />
I shook on the floor in a pile<br />
believing I would leave there<br />
under restraint but now<br />
years after leaving home<br />
we get along and she<br />
agrees that I am too young<br />
at your age<br />
she says I had three babies<br />
a husband who beat me<br />
saggy breasts and various<br />
other afflictions<br />
so go ahead and do it<br />
someone else<br />
117
Change language