Mother, Finally

I will no longer search
for a mother’s love
and find none.

No longer in need of
an earthly mother,
I rest.

I accept her arms
around me,
her love.

I begin.

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Amy Spencer is a semi-retired writer and editor of newspapers, magazines, books, and website content, with a degree in magazine journalism from Drake University. Her editorial career has spanned more than 40 years, and her very active faith life has included Protestantism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and now Catholicism. Among other adventures, such as growing up with a grandfather who convinced Dr. Suess (a.k.a. Ted Geisel) to publish poetry, not prose, Amy won the Iowa Poetry Association’s first prize in a year she can’t remember and published a chapbook, River, Tree, Town in 2012 under the pseudonym A. O. Spencer. She loves doing poetry readings and living in Colorado Springs with her husband, Bill.