Tag: Lindsey Bellosa
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“The Last Childbearing Years” by Lindsey Bellosa
The Last Childbearing Years Deliciously, all that we might have been, all that we were— fire, tears, wit, taste, martyred ambition— stirs like the memory of refused adultery the drained and flagging bosom of our middle years. –Adrienne Rich, “Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law” 1. The green leaves: so young against the sun. How […]
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“Birth Partner” and other poems by Lindsey Bellosa
Becoming a Woman The first time: my underwear, stained and crumpled, squashed into our bathroom cupboard and I am paged to the nurses’ office at school where the nurse asks in hushed tone if something has happened— we have watched the videos and been shown the diagrams, and my mother has called the school, […]
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