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MER - Mom Egg Review 22: Vol. 22 - 2024

MER - Mom Egg Review 22: Vol. 22 - 2024

Tesser Editor, Marjorie

Paperback

Series: Mer - Mom Egg Review

Poetry Anthologies

ISBN13: 9798990197503
Publisher: Half-Shell Press
Published: Apr 24 2024
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.23 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
This issue of MER is themed Ages/Stages.

The works in this issue shift perspectives. Mothers interpret, complicate, celebrate, and ameliorate children's milestones: a first day of school in Red Boots by Donna Shanley, a son's first heartbreak in Carrie Vittitoe's A First, a pivotal event in Cheryl Fish's A Seven-Year-Old Left Alone Shivering. Our children's stages recall our own pasts to us. Our elders' stages anticipate our future.

Mothers experience their own changes, both within the role and otherwise. Mandira Pattnaik and Amy Marques recount bodies changed by birth. Francesca Bell details the hours of absorption in the child's care. I wondered if the river carrying my hours away went anywhere. If I had squandered the one battered coin of my life when I chose to spend it on you. As Cheliss Thayer's speaker says in Co-Sleeper, [I]t's exhausting...

As children change with age, so does the mother. Frustration with the repetition and tedium of child-rearing can give way to nostalgia for those phases, as in Katie Manning's Empty Toilet Paper Rolls Make Me Anxious. In later stages, the mother, no longer called upon to perform as many tasks for others, is returned to a sole self. Prudence Baird notes in Just for Now,

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