The Paddock Review

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A Poem by Erika Eckart

This poem is from the book The Mothers by Erika Eckart (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/the-mothers-by-erika-eckart/

Erika Eckart is the author of the tyranny of heirlooms, a chapbook of interconnected prose poems (Sundress Publications, 2018). Her work has appeared in Agni, Quarter After Eight, Quick Fiction, Passages North, The Tampa Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Oak Park, IL where she mothers, writes, and teaches high school English.