Ekphrasis of A Uterus

The shape appears on the side of our old barn  where a patch of shadow has left an impression  into the grey, weather-beaten wood.  It was made  by an oak tree— older yet, with branches elegantly  arched like woody umbrellas, standing before the barn,  casting a remarkably female form into the wall  like a sun […]

Midwifing Loss

A pregnant mother lost a baby at fourteen weeks and buried the fetus behind a woodpile in her backyard. Before that, she asked if I would see his small body inside a blue ceramic bowl in her fridge and how the baby’s arm moved at the elbow hinge when she touched him. He had a […]