I wrote this poem using wolf imagery as a way to explain the unexplainable, the estrangement of my two adult daughters. There is a cautious intimacy with lethal consequences. As a mother, sacrifice for your children is innate. In literature, mother love is often steadfast even to the point of death.

Sheree La Puma is an award-winning writer whose personal essays, fiction and poetry have appeared in or are forthcoming in The Rumpus, Plainsongs, The Main Street Rag, Burningword Literary Journal, I-70 Review, Inflectionist Review, The London Reader, PacificReview, among others. She received an MFA in Writing from California Institute of the Arts and taught poetry to former gang members.

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