Maternal instinct

Maternal Instinct: Panoramic Motherhood gathers twenty-three poems that move fluidly between fable, myth, prayer, and direct address. A mother blesses her daughter’s freedom in one poem and questions her own instinct to protect in the next; a father cradles his little girl as though heaven has touched the ground; a child with a fragile heart learns courage through her mischievous pet bird; a seed must break open to become a tree. Drawing on faith, friendship, illness, a pandemic, and the ordinary miracles of family life, these poems circle one enduring question: how does a mother know when to hold on, and when to let go?