The Book Nook Chronicles

A poem inspired by Anne Enright’s The Wren, the Wren

Birth was just pregnency externalized
(A pregnant woman a shameful thing, but a baby always a wonder)

She wanted to be done with it now
in a different life.

Why is anxiety always described as a spiral?
No one I met seemed to be anxious in the way I understood the word.
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I could have a sun baby, made of light...