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The poem "in the lab / ill" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: The fever piled on, dragoned bitterly and quarreled and the opposite poles adjusted and; Last Line; ridicule, the face.

The article discusses the element of sentimentalism in contemporary American poetry on motherhood. It states how the realism concept is used in American poetical literature to depict motherhood as a happy event and eliminate the sentimentality. It also discusses how motherhood poetry should abide by the norms of literary and cultural aesthetics. It mentions poets like Sophie Jewett, Anne Bradstreet and Rachel Zucker.

It had the metallic notice of a gong. Or a setting moon, or a button lost or It had a smile for a satellite. [Extracted from the article]

A poem "respiration" by Jennifer Militello, is presented. First Line: The thorax has a natural tendency to expand. The lungs have a natural tendency to collapse. Last Line: activate. We are found in the walls of ourselves.

Presents the poem "History of the Always Pain," by Jennifer Militello. First Line: When I was born, I woke in the bedrooms; Last Line: its notorious venom the next unruly source.

The poem "Machine Religion," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Jesus is a lyric poem. Last Line: E string pleads.

The poem "The Introvert's Lament," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: One person I mimic. One person I triptych. Last Line: the bulb, hardly likely to survive.

The poem "Dear B," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: When I remake my life, I will let me lie, less slow with blooms. The dead leaves rattle in their fascinated; Last Line: must be netted first.

Presents the poem "A Thunderstorm Reminds Me of My Convictions," by Jennifer Militello. First Line: Its blue cathedral is trembling into the marrow; Last Line: There is good hunting. There is terrible joy.

The poem "The Pact" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Mother, I have destroyed you. Forgive me as I am; Last Line: and all the daughters caught in their rows.

The poem "Lake Natron" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Your love's thermal waters, kept from sun; Last Line: The limestone statues of my ankles eat away.

The poem "The Mechanics," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Begin. Last Line: shoulder to the wall.

The poem "The Naming," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: My heart is filled with the many hearts of the river's traveling children. Last Line: Their hearts are where the autumn lives. I wisp there in the gape.

The poem "A Dictionary of Keeping Quiet Between the Monstrous and Holy in the Voice of Marian Parker," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Surrounded by water, I was not a martyr. Last Line: I will not happen at all.

The poem "Conspiracy to Commit Larceny," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: She she she— at the crux of what hurts— (the police came)— thin; Last Line: name)—her name above the bed is ending as I speak—I carve my name.

The poem "&" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Darling, you are my boxed-in place, my razor blade, Last Line: is your souvenir, my heart a stone, a sealed keepsake.

The poem "Pledge" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: I promise I will know you like the back of a hand, Last Line: martyr entrances for the exits they become.

The poem "Electric Fence" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: My collar is my lover's death. Last Line: eyes fill; he hinges, he stands.

The poem "Chemistry" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Don't fuse, at least. Don't beaker. Don't; Last Line: Is not a firefly jars would hold.

The poem "&" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Darling, you are my boxed-in place, my razor blade, Last Line: is your souvenir, my heart a stone, a sealed keepsake.

The poem "In the Rainshadow of Whom" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: There has never been such a heart. The cost; Last Line: and rift, and racked there with the dapple of it.

The poem "Ode to Superstition" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Their swamp gas stars us with axe marks, Last Line: mark such bedposts with even a notch.

The article offers a personal narrative wherein the author creatively compares traveling on an airplane with science.

The article offers a personal narrative wherein she creatively describes her job as a laboratory personnel.

The poem "Leitmotif of the Mothers," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: We are dead already. There is no place to go. Last Line: and not its competition; its sound will fall, and disperse like rain.

Presents the poem "Antidote with Placebo," by Jennifer Militello. First Line: Pit yourself against gutted ships, against; Last Line: the circle of thorns it remains.

The poem "A Dictionary of Almost Drowning," by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: The sea will go on migrating: four doves, Last Line: as many times as there are knives in its swift machine.

The poem "Agape Fest" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: What is love but the bruise or the abrasion, Last Line: more invisible the more you drink.

Presents the poem "A Dictionary of Wedlock," by Jennifer Militello. First Line: It presses my tie. Last Line: dry as a cellar, straight as a pin.

Presents the poem "A Dictionary of the Garment," by Jennifer Militello. First Line: It came to me without warning. Last Line: shot through with the grip and its steady alarm.

The poem "Erotomania" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: Do not asphyxiate the bitch in me. Last Line: or the appendage hitches, or the none of us bloom.

The poem "How Feeling Too Much Is like Tracking or Taxidermy" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First Line: If I keep my binoculars focused on; Last Line: I spring from the fern-bitten dust.

The poem "cell" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First line: They think, as greennesses think, of freezing, and of the gowns of dawn; Last line: In a country I thought I could tame, the gorsebush lowered, the pollen.

The poem "specimen slide" by Jennifer Militello is presented. First line: all the scalloped costumes the sample wears, treeing with initial substance, Last line: fat with knots.