Here We Go
Natalie Marino
No one can tell
the
future.
I see my daughters,
their flower faces
how they hold stars
in their hands.
I taught them
to listen
for whale songs,
and to remember
happy rhymes.
The mulberry
bush dances round
in my head
and I hope
there will
always be
trees.
Natalie Marino is a poet, physician, and mother. Her work appears in Barren Magazine, Bitter Oleander, Dust Poetry Magazine, EcoTheo Review, Kissing Dynamite Poetry, Leon Literary Review, Literary Mama, Midway Journal, Moria Online, Oyez Review, Second Chance Lit, and elsewhere. She was named a finalist in Sweet’s 2021 poetry contest. Her micro-chapbook, Attachment Theory, was published by Ghost City Press in June 2021. She lives in California.