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Motherhood

Princess

By Marta Orriols

A headband, you say? You’re ridiculous.

Translated from Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem

A hand hovering over a pill organizer filled with multicolored pills

Photo by Laurynas Mereckas on Unsplash

Boulder

By Eva Baltasar

Having a kid is the same as enrolling in a lifetime plan of suffering.

Translated from Catalan by Julia Sanches

From I Am Alive

At eighty-six years old, Éliane had to stand up and confront her own private nightmare.

Translated from French by Nathan H. Dize

[My mother works in a cannery]

By Luisa Castro

Love is a work of art in a can.

Translated from Galician by Laura Cesarco Eglin

Multilingual

Daughter Number Eight

By Freshta Ghani

“Is it a boy or a girl?”

Translated from Pashto by Zarghuna Kargar

Photo by Denise Jans on Unsplash

Fatoum and Hamoud and Hamed

By Qatari Oral Tradition

The mother sheep would warn her children of the wolf that prowled the town.

Translated from Arabic by Rana Elmaghraby

The Mothers

Our second home is built / in the avenue of death, say the mothers

Translated from French by Marilyn Hacker

Multilingual

A rebozo photographed in black and white.

By Mónica Morales. License: CC by 2.0 Access at: https://flic.kr/p/rP5TJ

Purépecha Mother

By Gilberto Jerónimo Mateo

This poem from an indigenous Purépecha author celebrates the heroism of a seemingly ordinary woman.

Translated from Spanish by Earl Shorris & Sylvia Sasson Shorris

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