SLIPPERY SLOPE
Be the net, not the nest, analyst advice for an attached mother.
The dream is of an icy hill we are climbing in a car driven by the older
child. But the trouble is with the younger, I tell Doctor C. Yes, and
you’re being shown by the other. I don’t make it across when I try
to jump from glacier to glacier; because I land in dangerously cold water
we must turn back. Sorry to disappoint my son. My sons. Divorce
the ex again, I am told. I think perhaps it is time to stop demanding
investigations like I am some powerless Democratic senator.
All I’ve tried to be is democratic. Power in the people. The news
was depressing, so I just stopped driving. Nesting is a constant
tending, the thing you do before the baby comes. To be a net
is to hold something and wait for the baby bird to fall into it.
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Intense. Powerful. (I went through outrageous custody nonsense, and in these processes, the children experience psychic trauma. It is not my place to offer any advice, but I’ll hold you, your kids, and your ex in the Light. (((HUG))) )
Vulnerable poem telling it how it is.
I love the linework of “Be the net, not the nest, analyst advice/for an attached mother.”