Tag: loss

A Mother’s Love

  • Author By yeagerk
  • Publication date April 30, 2020
  • Categories: Poetry

By:  Kaitlynn Yeager Grandmom buried 3 of her 5 children, but little does she know there’s a 4th who picked up the shovel. He’s out there digging, high on methamphetamines, his cheeks hollowed out. His hands are shaking from digging all of these years, but he hasn’t stopped yet to take a break. Sweat drips off his chin and that vein in his forehead is pulsating…Continue Reading A Mother’s Love

Grandmother’s Photo

  • Author By weavercc
  • Publication date April 27, 2020
  • Categories: Poetry

By: Jena Lui Ask me what I am thankful for and Grandmother, it goes back to you. Always. But I always think – could we not have gone back to the simpler times when I asked you on our walk back to (y)our home whether I should call you “Grandma” or “Grandmother” because English was…Continue Reading Grandmother’s Photo