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Category: mother

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Debates (COVID)

Posted on October 23, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 2 Comments

(This is not a poem about what happened last night, who said what, or who won.  And this is not a poem about how much we all wish this were finally over) The su...

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Writing Our Mothers (TRUE) (COVID)

Posted on August 24, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 5 Comments

Workshop last week Writing Our Mothers fifteen women tried unraveling who their mothers were. Some years ago a woman I knew not very well told us all the story ...

About Me/body parts/choices/family/Jews/Life and Death/mother

My Mother’s Birthday (COVID)

Posted on July 20, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 6 Comments

She would have been over 100. Never told us her age.  Neither did her mother, Yiddish speaker named Anna from Roumania,  who lived in Beverly Hills with my Uncl...

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APOLOGY POEMS (COVID)

Posted on July 16, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 4 Comments

(Now while we are All of Us looking up old friends to see how they are checking on other parts of our lives because of COVID because we are home because we are ...

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My Mother

Posted on May 10, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 12 Comments

My mother elusive in the way of mothers we spend so many years with them  we guess who they are who they were before we were born before they became our mothers...

choices/family/Getting Older/hope/Jews/mother/People/TRUE

Mothers Day Sort of (Part 2)

Posted on May 9, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 5 Comments

Anna Sorocer, my mother’s mother,  was born in a small town in Rumania and when she was a girl she met a Handsome Man in a bank line and she married him a...

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