A Language Like Water
This is how mothers and daughters speak,
a language like water
without form or shape
a fluid holding of all things–
dreams, hopes, secrets.
Bodies.
Longings.
Fused,
floating
oceanic embrace
….
This poem is from the chapbook Language Like Water by Nancy Gerber (Finishing Line Press), and is available at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/language-like-water-by-nancy-gerber/
The poems in Language Like Water speak to conflicts, challenges, and connections in a #daughter’s #relationship with her #mother over the span of a lifetime. The #poems resonate with longing and struggle as the daughter seeks to understand and restore her complicated mother, an enigmatic figure who struggles with depression. Ultimately the daughter recognizes her own strengths as she acknowledges and inscribes moments and memories of sharing and connection.
Nancy Gerber is the author of the poetry chapbooks, “The Kingdom of Childhood” and “We Are All Refugees,” published by New Feral Press. Her book Fire and Ice: Poetry and Prose (Arseya, 2014) was a finalist for the Gradiva Award. She received a PhD in English from Rutgers University and completed psychoanalytic training at the Academy of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis in Livingston, New Jersey.
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