The Bluestocking 2023-24

Mia Liang Grade 11 proof 1: impact a screech of rails and a jolting break and a mother lays prone in the track on west 4th her last breath was “no,” but he didn’t know or care when he pushed her in so he collects her daughter and walks it back home;

just the toll of mothering.

a rush of orange and the stink of smoke and a dozen mothers are dazed by light their last breath is the stale plane air but they chose to die there in somerset county with the bounty of their children but not the blood of the pentagon;

just the toll of mothering.

a flash of white and a flash of blue and ten thousand mothers stain the sea scarlet their last breath is their evaporated promise; to be good, to be stood with their sons in their little new haven, with raw flesh bathed clean by tired water that instead swallowed them whole;

just the toll of mothering.

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