Megan Driving Hawk, accepting the healing space that mothering takes up
Megan Driving Hawk (she/her/hers)
accepting the healing space that mothering takes up, from the series Simultaneous Memories, 2020
Double exposure and poetry
This poem was created by selecting words and phrases from my response to interview questions I put together for other mothers about their pregnancy and postpartum experiences in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Around the same time, this double exposure was made 4 months after my son was born and 3 months into the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. My postpartum experience was and always will be tied to the pandemic. I will never be able to separate the two. The simultaneity of my postpartum and pandemic experience continue today as I process the last year and continue to raise my son in a world I never envisioned.
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