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The intense, all-consuming, and often invisible struggle of transitioning into modern motherhood shouldering unresolved childhood trauma.
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M. M. M. is a love letter
to all the hurt mothers hurting,
and feeling utterly alone in the universe.
I see you.
Your ravenous anger. The tectonic sobs that wrack your body, long legs slathered in slick slipknots, no. They cinched a bowline. I bow my head and nod. Strange beasts dwell here beneath the surface. Secrets slither by.
I smell salt on the wind, the sea, your breath, lungs. I hear drowning happening in the well. See, sponges. Tides turning. A circle. That great gaping maw of motherhood swallowing you whole in the nights.
Your child starts to cry. It echoes in you, a cavernous wound walking
walking the halls and rocking, rocking, rocking.
The only light is that of the moon;
she is showing you the way.