I’m Afraid I’ll Lose My Tooth While Sleeping

Feb 21, 2025

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The second poem of the month, but a love poem that is also a worry poem, a what-if poem, a gratitude poem. Motherhood, like all relationships, is complicated.

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I’m Afraid I’ll Lose My Tooth While Sleeping 

The baby cuspid dangles from just inside her lip, gnarled

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