Document Type
Creative Work
Publication Date
2025
Publication Title
Poetry
Volume
226
Issue
5
Pages
396-397
Abstract
[Introduction]At the playground, my mother hid from me, I couldn’t find her, and I called her name a thousand times.
And when she reappeared, I ran to her, and she ran to me, and I clenched her neck, and I put my hands on her face, and I said, Where were you? Where were you? and she said, I’m so glad you found me. And we hugged, and she smiled as she cradled me, and I howled, like a gibbon, at her shoulder.
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Original Publication Citation
Chan, M. (2025). A kind of goodness. Poetry, 226(5), 396-397. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/1710591/a-kind-of-goodness
Repository Citation
Chan, Marianne, "A Kind of Goodness" (2025). English Faculty Publications. 237.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/english_fac_pubs/237