Keywords
My Mother's Scars, poetry, creative writing
Document Type
Poetry
Description
I. My mother wakes to a flatness on her chest and thinks of her mother waking to that same absence forty years before. The history of a family written on the bodies of descendents. In stormy weather her nerves pulse sharply in that scar reopened over and over, where surgeons’ plows left ragged lines. My mother’s scar glares cold with past lives all purple-green
Recommended Citation
Malouf, Alexandra
(2024)
"My Mother's Scars,"
Inscape: Vol. 44:
No.
1, Article 24.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/inscape/vol44/iss1/24