February 2012
2 posts
poetry: Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnell | Marty... →
readpoems:
leaving is not enough; you must stay gone. train your heart like a dog. change the locks even on the house he’s never visited. you lucky, lucky girl. you have an apartment just your size. a bathtub full of tea. a heart the size of Arizona, but not nearly so arid. don’t wish away your cracked past,…
Joyful Noises
I read this article on The Hairpin and it’s got me thinking. Beth Boyle Machlan writes about her youngest daughter’s life with Tourette’s Syndrome, but the piece is a moving overview of her experience of motherhood in general.
Machlan pokes fun at herself a little bit for something she said before she was a mother: “Raising daughters is like blowing glass. There’s a...