April is Poetry Month # 11

one day while fishing for the cauliflower i found the baby

i had forgotten it,

tucked safe in the freezer

my little mummy,

little mommy’s boy one blue eye

frozen open…

(contact me to hear the rest of poem–rebeccacookwriter@gmail.com)

Rebecca Cook lives in Chattanooga, TN. She grew up in North Georgia on a farm in Wood Station. She is a writer and visual artist, a writing teacher, an editor, and she has been known to preach in her local church, Grace Episcopal. She is a mom, a wife, and a homemaker/cook at present as she no longer works outside the home. She took her MA in English Literature (UTC), her MA in Rhetoric and Writing (UTC), and MFA in Creative Writing,--poetry, creative nonfiction, (Vermont College). She has published prose and poetry widely across the internet and in print magazines and journals.