Reprise: Layers of Pentimento

A look at a new poem by Diane DeCillis

Originally published on How to Grow a Poem in April, 2023.

The word itself--mother--can be a fraught one, when the loving nurturer society celebrates isn’t the parent a writer actually knew. 

For Diane DeCillis, an award-winning Michigan poet, that was the challenge when she set out to write about her complicated relationship with her complicated mother, …