1 25 3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document Today must have been beautiful. She, never having believed her life could be full looks at my face, and hands, and eyes believing in expectations before the first breath can be made. Tomorrow, I leave a letter in a bright pink envelope, like flashing lights to signal caution, for my mother. Then I drive away and cannot see the effects of what I have done to disrupt the ease of life in our blue house. We have lived each day like strangers, forgetting she is my mother and I am her daughter, and each piece of me is her. The wide hips we both sink into, the medium-sized breasts we have tried to hide, beautiful parts of a woman I wish I did not have, and she wishes she did not give to me. We sit under shallow trees drinking wine and eating focaccia bread with olives. We do not talk because we cannot. I can hardly look at her, her empty gaze gnawing at my stability, so I study the creases in my hands, interesting and safe. She asked me if I could remember the good times. Growing up in rain and gray doesn’t lend oneself to remembering good times. But for me I think of the time when she left me in the car while she went into the restaurant not looking back, and at her lunch. The plan was to spend the day together, but I don’t see the possibility or the time when she got angry, like the hot water heater does when the water inside is hot enough, and yelled at me for wearing the clothes I wore, for wearing the face I wore, called me cloudy, and decided she wouldn’t give me definitions anymore, just handed me the dictionary. Someone said every seven years your insides, the composition of cells, changes meaning who I was when I was thirteen, and who she was when she was forty-five, are not who we are now. My mind becomes clouded when I try to imagine at my birthday party how I cried when they sang Happy Birthday to me, and how when I tried to hide under the dining room table my mother picked me up, into her arms and loved me. I’m sure it was raining that day. I want it to rain now, because I am dehydrated in this desert of mountains, and even if it brings back tears, at least there will be salt from the ocean that rains on the blue house, where my mother is sitting and singing, Rock-A-Bye Baby, and rubbing a sore leg, and saying, “Goodnight, sweetie, I’m going up” so that I will know where she is. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/214">Emily Irwin</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Gray Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Emily Irwin Author Tag: chronic pain or illness Author Tag: Gender Diverse Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: queer Author Tag: white Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource All Anthology Poems Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all poems currently available to read in the Anthology. To browse poems by author identity tags, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Poem Contains text information about individual contributors to the anthology. Text Any textual data included in the document I wanted to catch him because he was my father But he managed to squeeze between the rail and the fence anyway, Not noticing his image—whole—mirrored in the still water. His eyes were closed when he jumped And his thoughts went from tangled to clear. His body fell like a ladder falling away from the side of a building—slow— With his shoes leading the way To the steel grey blue below. We did not find him for fourteen days. And even when we found him, we lost. —<a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/214">Emily Irwin</a> Content Warnings Warnings about any potentially harmful or triggering content present in the text. suicide or self-harm (including ideation) family trauma or domestic violence mental health Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource [Untitled] Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Emily Irwin Author Tag: chronic pain or illness Author Tag: Gender Diverse Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: queer Author Tag: white Content Notice: family trauma or domestic violence Content Notice: mental health Content Notice: suicide or self-harm (including ideation) Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Contributing Authors Description An account of the resource This is a collection of all authors who have contributed to the Anthology. To browse authors by identities, <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/tag-index" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">visit the tag index</a> or <a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/search" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">try our advanced search</a>. Author Contains a poem written in plain text. Author Biography Biographical information about a person. Emily Irwin (she/her) is a human and mental health counselor who sees and experiences the world deeply and inspires others to take an out-of-the-box approach to their lives. This is reflected in both her professional work with clients and also in her writing. Emily was born and raised in Seattle, WA and weirdly still lives there. If you look closely, you can find her journaling, meditating, tending to houseplants and playing pickleball. Poems List of poems attributed to the author. <ul><li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/215" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Untitled</a></li> <li><a href="https://waqueeranth.omeka.net/items/show/216" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Gray</a></li> </ul> Region The region of Washington State in which the author lives or has lived. North Puget Sound Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Emily Irwin Author Tag: chronic pain or illness Author Tag: Gender Diverse Author Tag: neurodivergent Author Tag: queer Author Tag: white