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Picture"Weather and Words" by Susan Solomon

Maiden, ______ , Mother
​
The violence of being who 
you are: the ground sleeps 
dark beneath the snow. I am 
a dreading woman. I am a girl 
who behaves powerfully. 
Babies, meat, abide. (In this 
dream I accrue ten thousand 
eyeballed eggs, preside high
over my legacy. 
I am powerful because you 
do not look away.) (She lifts up 
her hair, shows a knifey gash 
amid the crowded overlaid nits, 
rich breach like a grin 
aglow in the dark, dark, dark. 
I do not pity their mother, I pity 
the children.) Babies, meat, abide.


Ginger Ko is the author of Motherlover from Coconut Books, and her chapbook Inherit is forthcoming from Bloof. She lives in Wyoming.

Susan Solomon is a freelance painter living in St. Paul, Minnesota. She also edits and cartoons Sleet Magazine, an online literary journal. Susan was recently laid off from her medical office job after 11 years and is now happily painting full time. She is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the same school that claims David Lynch as an alumni. To view more paintings, please visit www.susansolomonpainter.com

​"Weather and Words" first appeared in the collaboration chapbook Dessert Poems with poet Jamie Buehner (Binge Press 2012).
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