Benore, Amy Marie

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AmaranthusVolume 1997 | Issue 1 Article 41-30-2013Mother...Amy Marie BenoreGrand Valley State UniversityFollow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/amaranthusThis Article is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@GVSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Amaranthus by an authorizedadministrator of ScholarWorks@GVSU. For more information, please contact scholarworks@gvsu.edu.Recommended CitationBenore, Amy Marie (1997) "Mother...," Amaranthus: Vol. 1997: Iss. 1, Article 4.Available at: http://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/amaranthus/vol1997/iss1/4Amy Marie Benore Mother. .. cannot find the center cannot find myself cannot imagine myself without you inside of me cannot imagine us being alike seeking to find you seeking to find myself. that sacred night seeing you once a year not knowing it would be the last time you'd want to hold us love us look us in the eye. holding onto the last moment summer of '87: long legs, s t rid i n g c I m b i n g into your girlfriend's car, a Z-28, white, with your hair and overalls cropped short. you had just hugged us, told us you'd call (the familiar line). myrtle beach, south carolina. you smiled you waved and what i mistook as happy tears were probably tears of relief. it was the summer my period started a cycle a sharing of womanhood. you would not share with me. 4 Amaranthus little did you know THEY were inside of me... biological similarities our hair our faces our strange love of activism. but sharing these things with you is impossible. you left me with nothing. above all you told me you hated your cycle you'd had a hysterectomy there was nothing special about it. and so, like you, shunned my womanhood. when you left, you knew. you knew, somewhere d e e p d o w n that you'd never see us again ... was it my womanhood that scared you? did i in my young feminist ramblings scare you? my modest mind tells me i was too strong for you. for you are weak; but so am i, for i am a part of you, you are a part of me and in seeking you i seek myself. Amaranthus 5 

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