This article contains an account of the author's childhood experiences of her mother's use of harsh corporal punishment. These childhood experiences, as well as other aspects of the author's family life, are largely conveyed to the reader through a combination of autoethnographic poems and prose. Through these writings the author reflects on the haunting power of childhood experiences of harsh corporal punishment.
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