WRITING
Poetry, essays, and reflections on grief, motherhood, attachment, and selfhood
A JOURNAL OF THE HEART AND THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE.
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Coastlines
I remember thinking to myself, haven’t I learned enough? But maybe this lesson wasn’t meant for me.
From loving you, I know a few things to be true: I know how to love. I know how to be a parent. I know how to stay.
If there’s a lesson here, it’s for you. You threw away the ocean for a kiddie pool—because you were too scared to swim.
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Some experiences don’t ask to be solved, only witnessed. Writing gives me a place to remain with what is unresolved, contradictory, tender, and true. It lets me stay with the complexity of being human—of birth, grief, identity, loss, and connection.
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