How could you have been so careless? You have lost your mother’s love. You thought you’d put it away inside a dresser drawer, painted pine. This was before the lake in your window, before the Midwest and its loneliness. You were still in California. Perhaps you lost it in the move, or […]
Nina Clements
Nina Clements earned an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of the chapbook Set the Table, published by Finishing Line Press, and the poetry collection Our Mother of Sorrows, published by Urban Farmhouse Press. Originally from Pittsburgh, she works as a librarian in Madison, Wisconsin and is a proud member of Women Who Submit.