Back from a Long Sojourn…of Early Motherhood
My poetry book was published! Buy it on Amazon: How We Drift.
Yes, it has been two years since I was here, and how much has happened! I have taught my workshop, grown and birthed and begun the process of raising a child in the world. We have traveled across the US and into Canada, and have left our friends in Asheville to be in Maine, close to family. My daughter has been my great poem these last 2 years–the quiet fertile making of her in my body, and now that she is in the world, the caring of her, my greatest, most challenging work. And yet. Poetry is something that lives inside of you despite outside circumstances. And here I am, writing again. Beginning to look outside again. In a new place, among new friends. I am sending things out again to be published–more slowly than in times past, perhaps. But my life has a whirling dervish in it now. So I gather the rosebuds when I can.
