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Mother, my other, my theo and my om My matter. Tom tom tom to me, your roe, your o tore hot to me Rheo madre, streamer of kisses, REM mommy, ore Mother to her, he, me Tome. Tree mother Demeter Metropolis Umm brother More, Mother! Oh— Mother morte. Mother gone to me I live on orts Mother moth to me, moth at the pane to me Mother me, Mother, ever the flame |
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| Lee Sharkey’s most recent poetry collections are A Darker, Sweeter String (Off the Grid Press), and To A Vanished World,
a poem sequence in response to Roman Vishniac’s photographs of
Eastern European Jewry in the years just preceding the Nazi Holocaust.
The Maine Arts Commission’s 2010 Fellow in the Literary Arts, she
co-edits the Beloit Poetry Journal and runs a long-standing writing workshop for adults with mental illness. |
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