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Amy Bornmanessays 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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the storylessness
Once the initial postpartum period wears off, you enter a distinct period of storylessness. There is nothing coming next, only life’s slow unfurling. Each day is a cycle of the same care tasks, repeated ad nauseum. There is comfort in this...
in the walled garden
In my first few weeks postpartum, I kept a running note on my phone to write in anytime I wanted to. I always mean to document important things so thoroughly, and instead I end up with something sort of misshapen but also authentic. Returni...
paradise
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 somewha...
annihilation
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...
the third trimester
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...
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I am an poet, doula, artist, etc. — author of Broken Waters (2024), and There is a Future (2020), and co-author of How to Sew Clothes (2023) — writing essays and poems about motherhood, life at home, zine publishing, and creative practice.
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