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Six Children
by Barbara Hoffman

my mother had no
time for herself

at night
she fell asleep

in the bathtub
slipping down

till cold water
jolted her awake

some nights
I’d find her

at the kitchen table
hunched over

reading a book
a cup of tea steaming

a cigarette burning
no one calling

Mama Mama