with gratitude to Kelly McDaniel
These are the symptoms
grief / vodka / fairy tales
in our attempts to be modern
think of your biological mother as a broken bone
or ambiguous loss
exercise implicit memory
a tingling in the ears
Mother Hunger
LAUREN SMOTHERS lives in Jackson, Tennessee and owns Light Trap Books. She is a graduate of the MFA program in creative writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and has had poems and photography published in Appalachian Review, Juke Joint, and elsewhere.