Poems and Authors Included in Perspectives on a Grafted Tree

Little Spirit to Childless Couple by Carol Lynn Pearson

Mother’s Day by Margaret Munck

Trying to Conceive #2 by Marion Cohen

The Intake Interview by Marilee Richards

waiting for The Call by Shelai Stewart Darst

Adoptive Father by Bill Thompson

To David by Rosemarie Gross

Opting for Me by Opal Palmer

Confession by Mary Anne Cohen

My Child Was Born Today by Angela McGuire

Pre-Adoption Picture by Isaac Mozeson

Oh Little One by Ellen Hyers

Prelude by Elayne D Mackie

On the Night of Andrew’s Birth by Margaret Munk

I Just Gave Birth to a Son by Judith Steinbergh

Picture 254 by Richard Stanin

Adopting for One’s Own by Barbar Fialkowski

The Beginning: For Kathie by Malcolm Glass

First Meeting by Miriam Proctor

Early Morning Ritual with a Newly Adopted Daughter by Nancy Cash

Daughter by Pam Conrad

Welcome Home by Michael F Anderson

Why This Child? by Lori Hess

Kinship by Margaret Munk

Some May Be Born by an unknown author

How Could They? by W Steven Hollingsworth

Not Really Yours by Vicki Andres

Our Gift by Norel C Waldhaus

Stevie Didn’t Hear by Grace Sandness

Kitchen by Pam Conrad

Adoption-For Sarah by Carol Burnes

The Adopted Ones by Janet McCann

The Easy Way by Patricia Irwin Johnston

Not Flesh of My Flesh by Fleur Conkling Heyliger

To an Adopted by Carol Lynn Pearson

Tighter in the Weave by Kirk Shuster

The Mother of Red Jacket by Philip St Clair

Adoption-To Alex, twenty-trhee month by Ann Chandonnet

My daughter’s Dowry by Arthur Dobrin

Gold Bangles: For My Indian Daughter by Erika Mumford

Reflection on Love by Dawn Newell

For Anthony: Christmas 1964 by Loal ZiererBeihl

Sonnet for Michelle by Barbara Nector Davis

To John-David by Rosemary Bleeke

To the Birth Mother by Shirley G Cochrane

To Leah by Christina V Pacosz

For My Husband’s Mother by Ellen Bass

If Only You Could Know by Elayne D Mackie

A Birthday by Sue Westrum

A Birthday Ode to Wendy by Sandra Kay Musser

Is This the Day? by Dawn Newell

The Mother of My Child by Judith Steinbergh

Doin’ Time by Helen Garcia

Stifled Love by Your Birth Mother (intentionally anonymous)

Our Child by Chirs Probst

Agency Poem by Mary Anne Cohen

To Michael, Brian, Ricky and Susie by Kathy Garlitz

A Few Days by Elizabeth Omand

The Beginning by Rabindranath Tagore

Legacy of an Adopted Child by an unknown author

First Grief by Margaret Munk

Acceptance by Judith Steinbergh

Foundling by Patricia Storace

Bloodlines by Walter McDonald

Lost History by Dawn Newell

To Mama by Sue Walker

The Search: Identity, Out by Marianna F Gentile

The Search: Identity, In by Marianna F Gentile

Mary Cassatt’s Mothers and Children by Leslie Brooke

My Brown Daughter by Grace Sandness

Sea Poem by Mary Anne Cohen

Mother May I by Marcia Massco

My Naomi by Elizabeth Morgan

from that point on… by Didi S Dubelyew

My Daughter’s Mothers by Dawn Newell

Who Loves Me? by Deloris Selinsky

The Cradle Is Too Small for ME by Dainne Drilock

I am a Ghost Written Book by Elizabeth Morgan

The Chosen One by Virginia Cain

Search for Yesterday by Didi S Dubelyew

Family Tree by Jane Merchant

Benediction by Rabindranath Tagore

The Heart of a Child by an unknown author