ABOUT FRANCES TREVINO-BENAVIDES

Frances Trevino-Benavides teaches English in the San Antonio Independent School District and at the University of the Incarnate Word. Her studies have taken her through Europe and Mexico and includes an NEH grant for study of Latin American writers. She has been published in several literary journals and included in an anthology of Texas women's poetry. She has a new book forthcoming from Wings Press.

Mama and Other Tragedies
Frances Trevino-Benavides

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ISBN: 1-877603-63-5

San Antonio South Side Women

fling the knives
in jealous furies
at the unfaithful boyfriends
faithfully
denying such women exist

curse the mothers
who protect
the filthy lies

smear their tears
mascaraed black and raging

and hold the babies
who will love them
in the unconditional way
which their
boyfriends and husbands
do not

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