tw: mentions of death, bad parental relationships
~inspired by/mentions Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey~
written on: september 12, 2022
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reading Native Guard
section one
poem after poem about her mother
her life and
her death and
all the lingering spots in between
it's strange
reading eloquently written
complicated structures and hidden subtleties about
a woman she loved and that
loved her
my own works are quite different
half-baked ideas and simplicities with
structure lost to the haste of a bustling, overworked mind
yes, it feels quite odd reading about
graveyard blues
a mother who was loved and lost
when i write because everything my mother
did to me is inside my chest
beating, scratching, crying to be let out
maybe that is why i don't write how she writes because
i will not
miss my mother when she is gone and there is
nothing very eloquent about that
YOU ARE READING
poetry by jungenwunder
Poetrymy old stuff is pretty bad but my newer stuff is much better, please pay attention to when it was written and feel free to start at the end of the book!! i will have trigger warnings at the beginning of chapters when necessary. stay safe, i love you.
