Perspectives on a Grafted Tree: Thoughts for Those Touched by Adoption

New Hardcover print: 09.20.17

Welcome Home by Michael F. Anderson
Not Really Yours, Some People Say by Vicki Andres
For My Husband's Mother by Ellen Bass
For Anthony: Christmas, 1964 by Lola Zierer Beihl
To John-david by Rosemary Bleeke
Mary Cassatt's Mothers And Children by Leslie Brooke
The Chosen One by Virginia Cain
Early Morning Ritual With A Newly Adopted Daughter by Nancy Cash
Adoption by Ann Fox Chandonnet
To My Birth Mother by Shirley Gates Cochrane
Trying To Conceive #2 by Marion Deutsch Cohen
Agency Poem by Mary Anne Cohen
Confession by Mary Anne Cohen
Sea Poem by Mary Anne Cohen
Daughter by Pam Conrad
Kitchen by Pam Conrad
Waiting For The Call by Shelia Stewart Darst
Sonnet For Michelle (on Receiving Final Adoption Papers) by Barbara Nector Davis
My Daughter's Dowry by Arthur Dobrin
The Cradle Is Too Small For Me by Dainne Drilock
From That Point On by Didi S. Dubelyew
Search For Yesterday by Didi S. Dubelyew
Adopting For One's Own by Barbara Fialkowski
Doin' Time by Helen Garcia
To Michael, Brian, Ricky And Susie by Kathy Garlitz
The Search: Identity, In by Marianna F. Gentile
The Search: Identity, Out by Marianna F. Gentile
On Children by Kahlil Gibran
The Beginning by Malcolm Glass
To David Broomfield by Rosemarie Gross
Why This Child? by Lori Hess
Not Flesh Of My Flesh by Fleur Conkling Heyliger
How Could They? by W. Steven Hollingsworth
Oh, Little One by Ellen Hyers
The Easy Way To Have A Child by Pat Johnston
If Only You Could Know by Elayne D. Mackie
Prelude by Elayne D. Mackie
Mother May I by Marcia Massco
The Adopted Ones by Janet Mccann
Bloodlines by Walter Robert Mcdonald
My Child Was Born Today by Angela Mcguire
Family Tree by Jane Merchant
I Am A Ghost-written Book by Elizabeth Seydel Morgan
My Naomi by Elizabeth Seydel Morgan
Pre-adoption Picture by Isaac Mozeson
Gold Bangles: For My Indian Daughter by Erika Mumford
First Grief by Margaret Rampton Munk
Kinship by Margaret Rampton Munk
Mother's Day by Margaret Rampton Munk
One The Night Of Andrew's Birth by Margaret Rampton Munk
A Birthday Ode To Wendy by Sandra Kay Musser
Is This The Day? by Dawn Newell
Lost History by Dawn Newell
My Daughter's Mothers by Dawn Newell
Reflection On Love by Dawn Newell
A Few Days (my Adopted-away Daughter Turns Eighteen) by Elizabeth Omand
To Leah by Christina V. Pacosz
Opting For 'me' by Opal Palmer
To An Adopted by Carol Lynn Pearson
Little Spirit To Childless Couple by Carol Lynn Peterson
Our Child by Chris Probst
First Meeting by Miriam Proctor
The Intake Interview by Marilee Richards
My Brown Daughter by Grace Sandness
Stevie Didn't Hear by Grace Sandness
Who Loves Me? by Deloris Selinsky
Tighter In The Weave by Kirk Shuster
The Mother Of Red Jacket To Her Sisters, September, 1762 by Philip R. St. Clair
Picture 254 by Richard Stanin
Acceptance by Judith W. Steinbergh
I Just Gave Birth To A Son by Judith W. Steinbergh
The Mother Of My Child by Judith W. Steinbergh
Foundling by Patricia Storace
The Beginning by Rabindranath Tagore
Benediction by Rabindranath Tagore
Adoptive Father by Bill Thompson
The Heart Of A Child Is A Scroll by Anonymous
Legacy Of An Adopted Daughter by Anonymous
Some May Be Born The World Wide World Apart by Anonymous
Our Gift by Norel C. Waldhaus
To Mama (on My Birthday) by Sue Brannan Walker
Adoption by Carol Burnes Weston
A Birthday by Sue Westrum
Stifled Love by Your Birth Mother [pseud.]
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