On the screen

drops of dew
small and fragile
transparent
hope

all but leaked away
through broken
cup

burned off
by strong unsubtle
sun

flows again
in cool rooms
memory
another time
beyond this day.


Mary Anne Manning Cohen is a birthmother, poet, and is editor of Origins Newsletter. Active in adoption reform since 1976, she is also a member of CUB, Bastard Nation, and a former AAC Board Member.

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