Author Archives: darcie friesen hossack

(M)othering on an empty stomach I have recently become a supporter of Fake News. Fake news, fake facts, fake time, days, seasons—I am now an ardent supporter of all of these and more. As I walk with my dear mother down the final path of her life, I will support anything that makes her travellingContinue reading “(M)othering on an Empty Stomach. Memoir by Sandy Bezanson”

Mine – For C. There were times I left my tools at the top. There were times I pitched against the rock against my will against you sedimentary, fixed to everything around me. Therein a song of the dark lit a little by shine off the walls. I thought I made you but you wereContinue reading “Mine. Rubric. 2 poems by Andrea Holland”

Invitation to Mom (After Mirna Stone) If I can bring you back again it would be on a day like this when the sky opens wide to the water pelicans perch on fishing boats and lego-like container ships navigate the Panama Canal And I would bring you to my rooftop and tell you THIS isContinue reading “Invitation to Mom. A poem by Mary Pecaut”

A Life of Envy in memory of Stephen 1983-2012 I would rather someone to call sister, brother, father rather than my family tree rootless, without leaves; a life-path with fewer side streets, instead of twists and turns— crossroads leading to dead ends. I would rather hear the hum and drawl—calling for Mom again, talks withContinue reading “A Life of Envy. A poem by Lynn Tait”

WHEN OTHER ORDERS A MOTHER’S HEART The soil,dirty,darkly brown, often damp, The liquid gold of wombic nurture and stature, The goddess with nimble fingers and tender breasts, Teaching lullabies in a preachers trembling tunes upon a fevered wake, A father’s gift for a name after his father’s and further down the lineage, The place ofContinue reading “When Other Orders a Mother’s Heart. A poem and a hybrid by Nancy Ndeke”