Tag: By Herself

• “Good job, Mommy!”

  My life day to day was lived through ordinary actions and powerful emotions. But the more ordinary, actual, the more intense the day I lived. The more I lifted a child, conscious of nothing but the sweetness of a child’s skin, or the light behind an apple tree, or rain on slates, the more language…

  mariegauthier

  October 13, 2008

  books, family, poetry, pregnancy, Vincent, Writing

  books, Bridge of Flowers, By Herself, Eavan Boland, Morris Dancing, parenting, poetry, Vincent