As white women left their "mother" country, a "mother" for the Aboriginal people was destroyed. The impact of this is felt most strongly in Raping My Mother, an intense poem, which reveals these feelings of anger in the most explicit way: "To learn this country their way they tore it apart." / Mother and grandmother killed. Despite the provocative title, Leane also recognizes that Aboriginal women are historically 'divided', where the concept of transgenerational memory takes precedence