pregnancy
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I’ve Been Busy
I haven’t been around lately cause I’ve been busy, she says to herself opening up her laptop to write a blog post because she’s just been billed the annual fee for maintaining her blog. I’ve been busy brushing small hairs into place, the softest hairs imaginable, so that tiny hands can only pull them frantically… Continue reading
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Adventures In Baby Wearing
Today was the first day Naima and I ventured into the world on our own. Of course, ten years ago I was running around the world with a baby and a toddler. But today felt different. The world has changed, and so have I. I’m not old and feeble, but I am older. I wore… Continue reading
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The Ninth Month: A Prayer To My Unborn Baby
In my ninth month of growing you, Naima, I begin the return to myself. Your mother has been walking through dust so that men mistake her for a fallen city. You don’t yet know what a mother is. I am the first god you will have, but only accidentally, and then you’ll have more and… Continue reading
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Third Trimester Exhaustion Setting In.
I begin to set expectations of coconut water that are just unreasonable. I check the nutritional information before every glug, meditating on the word “electrolytes” like one might mediate on Om Mani Padme Hum. In the name of potassium and magnesium, bless it to my body I pray. Glug. I begin to feel my heart… Continue reading
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Writers Block VS Pregnancy Brain
It’s a rainy day, but lately even the sunny ones feel grey. I am grey. I am seven months pregnant and struggling to hold focus. I want to sleep all the time. I have no appetite and yet a duty to eat. The food is tasteless. I drink endless glasses of water and my skin… Continue reading
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Population Collapse
I’m curious what everyone thinks of the significant drop in birthrates in all industrialized countries over the last 50 years. I’ve been thinking of this a while, and have noticed a trend among the women in my circle who either don’t ever want to become pregnant/don’t want to have children/want to focus on career/don’t like… Continue reading
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Food Writing? No, I’m just really pregnant.
Last night I dreamt of a lentil soup with a rich dill broth, oily and warming with black pepper and mire pois (in company with a few sturdy potatoes) being the only other element besides my beloved manna, and all time food obsession, lentils. I dreamt I would squeeze lemon into it. Last night I… Continue reading
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Note To My Baby, Not Yet Born
To the ferret, wiggling in my abdomen, already silly: Whensoever you feel the tide pull gently over your shore to tuck you snuggly to sleep (my hand upon my belly, circling) And when you feel a great upheaval of worlds, everything on it’s side, the earth spinning right off her axis (with no small effort,… Continue reading
About Me
A poet living in Ontario. Mostly works of memoir and poetry that focus on motherhood, womanhood, and relationship to self.