Tag: motherhood

• Pink Bow Untied

  

  Rain would have been more fitting. Clouds. Torrential downpours. Some freak hurricane. Not this nurturing warmth that was carried in the breeze along with the songs of springtime robins. The boys were out with their father picking up new fishing poles and getting something for lunch. Patrick felt it best that Isabella, his wife, the…

  Dan Metzger

  July 14, 2017

  Fiction, Scene, Short Story

  alcohol, baby, children, creative writing, darkness, family, father, friendship, home, house, loss, love, miscarriage, mother, motherhood, pain, relationships, sadness, scene, separation, soup, spring, tears

• Our Complicated Public Union

  

  Walk beneath my canopy, aerial assaults pinging as you find a pace. In April’s warm mist your cheeks I keep dry. Hold me and I hold you, the infant wrapped in the folds of her mother’s arms. On clear days you hide me and I take comfort in the act. Hidden on the floor of…

  Dan Metzger

  August 20, 2015

  Poetry

  clouds, creative writing, love, material, motherhood, nature, object, poem, poetry, private, public, rain, sidewalk, skies, storm, sun, sunshine