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Everyday Kintsugi
The poems in this debut collection offer companionship to those healing from trauma and loss.
Everyday Kintsugi explores what it means to be broken and piece life together again in a way that shines with strength and beauty. While detailing the struggles of dealing with mental health, infertility, miscarriages, and motherhood, the poems in this debut collection provide a glimpse into the interior world of someone who has suffered a great loss and offer quiet ways of connecting to the strength and healing of nature. With a tender heart, unflinching gaze, and precise language, this book of poems examines the beauty and pain in life and is a companion for anyone with compassion for the plight of others.
Table of Contents
Another EMDR Session
Walking the Days
Still Waiting For the Medication to Help
Origin Story
Recovery and Loss
Marginal Cord Insertion and Placenta Accreta
The Hazards of Houses
In Memoriam
Cry of the Bean Sidhes
Blessing My Daughter
In the Road
Terra Song
I Carried the Bird to Class
The Life of a Tree
Elegy for a Vernal Pool
Food Aversions
Knowing This
Speaking To My Dead on Samhain
To the Doctor Who Told Me My Uterus Was Smothering My Babies
Maybe It’s Not Just the Medication Change
Now I Know What It Is Like
Familiar As Air
Asparagus
Interstellar
Magpies Will Steal Shiny Things
An Aborted Attempt at Changing Antidepressants
Everyday Moments
Getting Ready For Winter
Drills
Angrboða, Mother of Monsters
Microchimeriam
Mother Witch
Song
On Waiting for Willow to Get Out of School
A Stone
Explaining Death to My Five-Year-Old
A Huldre Speaks
How to Keep An Open Heart: Lessons for my Daughter
A Conversation with La Llorona
The Stuff of Stars
Taking a Walk Downtown
In Thanks for Antidepressants
The Hands of My Beloved
Through Goblin Eyes
Kintsugi
Acknowledgments