Bones We Made Together
out February 21, 2026 from Daxson Publishing
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"An intimate and unflinching meditation on motherhood, rupture, and the remaking of self."
"Wood-Darby is about to transport you to the most visceral, truth-telling, tear your heart open experience of motherhood, inter-generational trauma and living with deep love you have ever experienced. You do not need to have birthed or be raising children for this book to completely tear you open and sew you back together." --C. Jensen author of Tales to Tell the Old Gods
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When her mother leaves, inexplicably and without warning, four days after the birth of her son, the author wades into a world unrecognizable. What follows is a raw, devastating, and ultimately transcendent exploration of how we learn to mother when the template shatters.
Through fierce, vivid poems, this collection dives into postpartum's deepest currents and surfaces gasping with hard-won wisdom. Here, the ocean becomes metaphor and mirror: grief's undertow, love's overwhelming tide, transformation's relentless return to shore. The collection asks: How do we mother our children when we must first learn to mother ourselves? With visceral honesty about maternal mental health and western culture's failure to hold new parents, these verses refuse easy comfort. Instead, they offer something rarer—the complicated truth of becoming, of finding holiness in the process. This is a book for anyone who has parents, it is poetry as life raft, as baptism, as the deep work of learning to swim when you thought you'd drown. |
Bones We Made Together is a meditation on endurance, matriarchal inheritance, and the slow, soft alchemy of becoming—proving that survival itself can be an act of creation.
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