You glanced at them Their small and dewy faces Glossed by the passing headlights Behind you, All that tenderness. Beside you, All that venom. Their mother, heiress to last generation’s bitterness Black and set in her jaw.
Author: Eleanor Jackson
Eleanor Jackson is a Filipino Australian poet, performer, arts producer, cyclist, writer, gal about town, feminist, freewheeler, and friend.
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