These were all so beautiful! Alyssa, your line about your son keeping you in orbit + all the things he brings back to center stole my breath—just dazzling!! And Jillian, I wrote down that last stanza cuz I’ve been fighting against my current season but needed your beautiful reminder that the flowers don’t fight the earth/season and they still bloom 🤍 well done everyone!!
This poet, Nana of six, mother of two, no longer (obvs) raising children, is cheering for you one and all--your perspectives on life and motherhood and parenting and personhood as a woman are soooooooo appreciated. Applauding you all, well done!
ps I was gonna choose some favorite lines--nearly impossible, but may I say because Spring is burgeoning here in the Pacific NW that these images really sang to me, (from Michelle Windsor):
Love!
Wow! All of this! 🔥
These were all incredible ❤️ (also, Ms Frizzle is who I’ve always wanted to be when I grow up 😂)
These were all so beautiful! Alyssa, your line about your son keeping you in orbit + all the things he brings back to center stole my breath—just dazzling!! And Jillian, I wrote down that last stanza cuz I’ve been fighting against my current season but needed your beautiful reminder that the flowers don’t fight the earth/season and they still bloom 🤍 well done everyone!!
I think Jillian's line needs to be on a sign and or shirt.
Heck yes!!
Beautiful, ladies!
All beautiful! I loved and then and then
And twin cracks of consternation
And everything else!
Thanks for reading Reem!
I think this is the BEST (most powerful/profound/achingly familiar/etc.) one yet!? But then, I feel the same about each issue.❤️
Same!
This poet, Nana of six, mother of two, no longer (obvs) raising children, is cheering for you one and all--your perspectives on life and motherhood and parenting and personhood as a woman are soooooooo appreciated. Applauding you all, well done!
ps I was gonna choose some favorite lines--nearly impossible, but may I say because Spring is burgeoning here in the Pacific NW that these images really sang to me, (from Michelle Windsor):
"so watch for that first sign of green
for the unfurling
slowly, painfully at first
and then
and then ..."
You’ve done it again, gals. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Every. dang. month. 👏👏👏
Krista, your poem is like an anthem for Enneagram Ones. I'M REALISTIC, dangit.
Lorren, that last line. Mic drop. Oof. Didn't we all?
Hahaha this is what I said when Krista put it in the Part-Time Poets slack group. It hits me right in my Enneagram 1 heart!
This is such a good issue. Loved them all! 💛
I love when these issues come out! Each one is better and better. Bravo, ladies!