about the author
Tara Mae Mulroy is the author of the chapbook, Philomela, released from dancing girl press in 2014. Her poems, stories, and essays have been published in Third Coast, CutBank, Juked, Waccamaw, The Journal, and others found at taramaemulroy.com. She currently edits Nightjar Review and teaches Latin.
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One Poem
Tara Mae Mulroy
MOTHER CHILD
I made you from the night’s break
against frost
Your heart
is a sliver of glass
fished from a gutter after a bar fight
A barb of oysters stink
of whiskey
wet tobacco leaves
breath of
winter’s bitterness
how you move in me
like someone’s dying wish before coming there is darkness
i have never lived
without you