GENESIS BY Margarita Troshina Within my quiet, safe life as a Ukrainian adoptee, I am confronted with the issue of identity, once a vague concern, now amplified against the ongoing…
ROMELIA BY ANGELICA REYES The maid, the nanny, the cook, the caretaker, the invisible. You weren’t invisible to me, you were Ama, Nan-Tli, mi corazón, mi alma … my EVERYTHING.…
FACELESS MOTHER BY KIM SUE STEVENS This poem was inspired by a prompt shared in the adoptee voices writing group that used artwork entitled "First Mother" by artist Annie Lee.…