a loaf of bread + a loaf of bread
equaled your small body
a loaf of bread + a fire
equaled a bird in a wood stove
Erin Wilson
ERIN WILSON grew up in a rural community on Manitoulin Island, Canada. Her work has appeared in journals including CV2, Triggerfish Critical Review, takahē, Channel Magazine, Verse Daily, and numerous others. Her works include The Belly of the Pig (chapbook, Dancing Girls Press) and her debut full-length poetry collection, also with Circling Rivers, At Home with Disquiet. The title poem “Blue” was a part of a suite of poems long-listed for the CBC Poetry Prize. She makes her home now in a small town on Robinson-Huron Treaty territory. Visit Erin Wilson Poems and Miscellany
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Motherhood and Mental Illness: On Blue by Erin Wilson
by Emilee Kinney
For a collection steeped in drowning, Wilson continuously keeps readers afloat, buoyed by the promise and ever-present force of a mother’s love.
