Carol Muske-Dukes Poems

August, Los Angeles, Lullaby

by Carol Muske-Dukes

‘August, Los Angeles, Lullaby’ by Carol Muske-Dukes is a contemporary poem about bringing life into the world and the worries that plague a mother after giving birth. 

The pure amnesia of her face,

newborn. I looked so far

into her that, for a while,

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