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essays on motherhood, life at home, writing, publishing, and more by poet amy bornman – plus small press process + zines by mail! Read my books: BROKEN WATERS, HOW TO SEW CLOTHES, + THERE IS A FUTURE.
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paradise (opens the original)
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My third baby, Jane, is sixteen days old. She is unbelievably beautiful. She and I have been in bed as much as possible for these sixteen days, and it has felt other-worldly. The first week was nearly pure bliss. The second week was somewhat hellish, mostly due to anxiety and some stressful circumstances. The third week is somewhere in the middle. Doing this for the third time feels both easier and just as hard as the other times. In some ways I feel like a brand new mom, in other ways I feel se
annihilation (opens the original)
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The future is a benevolent black hole.-Lucy Dacus, “Cartwheel”Never going back again, the way it used to be is not the way that it is.-Phoebe Bridgers, “Never Going Back!” (Song lyric epigraphs for an essay! Why not? Also — shoutout to my enduring love of <a href="https://amybornman.
the third trimester (opens the original)
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I hold a growing belief that the third trimester of pregnancy is one of the strangest ordinary experiences human beings regularly endure. The first trimester is also deeply strange, but it’s somewhat privately strange, and mostly feels like being vaguely but unavoidably sick for an extended period of time. The third trimester is obvious to anyone who looks at you, with next to no privacy. It is utter liminality, a space between worlds. In the third trimester, your relationship to time becomes ev
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