While watching my petite mother-in-law rock my fast-growing toddler, I was reminded of The Pieta. As the poem unfolded, I explored how everyday moments can echo all the sorrow, struggle, and salvation we carry around--and how connection can always bring us back to center.

Kate Sanchez earned an MFA in Poetry Writing from Columbia College Chicago and served as Poet Laureate of her hometown, Hanover, PA. Her work has most recently been published in Ran Off With the Star Bassoon, The Night Heron Barks, and Eunoia. She writes, teaches, and mothers in Philly.

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