summer pause

I have turned off paid subscriptions over the summer while my attention wanders elsewhere, so you won’t be charged for a bit. I have a lot of editing projects on the go and so many loose ends to tend to. After this short message, you’ll hear from me again mid-July with the first digital issue of MOTHERLORE THREADS (submission info below).

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I just wanted to pop into your inbox because I am so thrilled to be able to share another poem from my upcoming pamphlet, which was recently published by Ink Sweat & Tears. It’s a poem about holding the knowledge that motherhood, pregnancy, birth are all common in life and yet so magical, unknown and individual:

BIRTHLIGHT

You are ordinary
to the teenager on the bus,
the doctor at our six-week check.

Everywhere, mothers birth
their own gold-spun miracles,
with features much like yours.

But I felt you move, 
little wish, inside 
my body, inside its mist.

I knew you first as fable,
a not-yet thing darting under skin,
a lantern held in the halfway.

Before I siphoned your light
outside me, and you flickered,
soared, and the world was changed.

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What I’m reading this month:

Natural Histories by Guadalupe Nettel

Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging by Jessica J. Lee

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

Hard Pushed by Leah Hazard

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There’s still a couple of weeks left to submit to this:

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