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COVER
COPYRIGHT
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
MIND
You Are Here
First Response
From The Women of Brewster Place
Motherhood
(Amber)
From The Kitchen God’s Wife
The End
A Million Women Are Your Mother
“Oh Yeah, Because You Could Choose Not To,” from Now for the North
From The Millstone
The Abortion I Didn’t Want
Free and Safe Abortion
Merely by Wilderness
From Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
Cora, Unashamed
You Have No Name, No Grave, No Identity
Five Months Vulnerable
From Past Due
Abortion
From Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
The Pill Versus the Springfield Mine Disaster
You Don’t Know
Ghazal
From What Have You Done for Me Lately?
Post-Abortion Questionnaire—Powered by SurveyMonkey
BODY
From “Tam Lin”
The Business of Machines
From Heat and Dust
Psalm
On the Death and Hacking into a Hundred Pieces of Nineteen-Year-Old Barbara Lofrumento by an Illegal Abortionist, 1962
From Self-Ritual for Invoking Release of Spirit Life in the Womb
And There Is This Edge
Tugging
From Happening
Saraswati Praises Your Name Even When You Have No Choice
“Recruiting New Counselors” from Jane: Abortion and the Underground
From “Box Set”
Birth
The Scarlet A
Sorry I’m Late
Pelican
Names of Exotic Gods and Children
Date of Last Period
Remembering How My Native American Grandfather Told Me a Pregnant Woman Had Swallowed Watermelon Seeds
From “Make Your Own Way Home”
An Avocado Is Going to Have an Abortion
yolk (v.)
This Doctor Speaks: Abortion Is Health Care
In Which I Am a Volcano, from Terminations: One
Cold Cuts and Conceptions
My Excuse: I Had an Abortion. What’s Yours?
The Jewel of Tehran
HEART
the mother
Places
Women’s Liberation
Cardboard Pope
From Granica (Boundary)
Interred
She Did Not Tell Her Mother (A Found Poem)
The Lady with the Lamp
From Rubyfruit Jungle
From La Bâtarde
I Am Used to Keeping Secrets about My Body
Weather
Of the Missing Fifty Million
My Sister Grows Big and Small
Tweets in Exile from Northern Ireland
The Virginity Thief (A Letter to My Man)
Abortion Hallucination
Brass Furnace Going Out: Song, After an Abortion
What Was, Still Is
From “Abortion”
Song of the Emmenagogues
From The Hundred Secret Senses
Nothing but the Wind
Haint
The Memory of Abortion Unexpectedly Returns
Gretel: Unmothering
Moo and Thrall
From La Nove de los locos (The Ship of Fools)
Abortion
From Come in Spinner
From “Standing Ground”
Dear Elegy the Size of a Blueberry
“Farewell, My Love,” from The Sacrament of Abortion
Afterlife
WILL
Through the Blood
Right to Life
From Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
The Spring of Life
From for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf
From “Introduction to ‘The Idea’ and ‘The Idea’”
Not Yours
Being a Woman
An Abortion Day Spell for Two Voices
I Think She Was a She
Regarding Choice
We Women
“Don Quixote’s Abortion,” from Don Quixote
American Abortion Sonnet #7
After the Abortion, an Older White Planned Parenthood Volunteer Asks If My Husband Is Here & Squeezes My Thigh and Says, “You Made The Right Decision,” and Then “Look What Could Happen If Trump Were President, I Mean, You Might Not Even Be Here.”
New World Order
From Daughter of Earth
The Abortion
Confession #1
From Frog
Getting into Trouble
The Children’s Crusade
A Promise
SPIRIT
Poem for Myself and Mei: Concerning Abortion
A Good Woman Would Never
Abortion Isn’t Beautiful
Magdalen
The Year the Law Changed
I Bloomed
From “Corona and Confession”
The Promise
From “A Healing Abortion Ceremony”
A Birth Plan for Dying
On That Day
New Religion
Hail Mary
At Advent, the Waiting Room
From A Book of American Martyrs
Tunnel of Light
Lizard
Beneath the World: Two Poems to The Child Never to Be Born
Prayer to the Spirit
the lost baby poem
Abortion Child
“Fire Section” from Abortion: A Healing Ritual
An Abortion
From “Principles of Midwifery,” from My Notorious Life
Christmas Carols
Nicolette
From “Lily’s Abortion in the Room of Statues” in Among the Goddesses
Chapel of Forgiveness
From Surfacing
Mourning Sickness
Lullaby
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CREDITS FOR REPRINTED TEXTS
CONTRIBUTORS
TIMELINE OF PRE-TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY WORKS
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