Girl

by Kate Kearns

Careful is a noise

mothers make.

Those bones

I made are yours

alone to break.

About the Author

Kate recently published a chapbook with Finishing Line Press entitled How to Love an Introvert (2015). Her poems have appeared in The Perpetual You magazine and Red Bird Chapbooks, and an essay was included in Mothering Through the Darkness, an anthology by SheWrites Press.