Katie Manning鈥檚 poem 鈥淐arrying鈥� was published in the American Journal of Nursing ().
Manning shared that 鈥淐arrying鈥� is 鈥渢he first thing I've written about miscarriage.鈥�
Amy Collins, managing editor of AJN, reflected on the poem's personal impact. "It immediately touched me because of the powerful way it described a sensitive topic: pregnancy loss. As a mother who lost a pregnancy in my second trimester, I found myself nodding with tears in my eyes at her elegant descriptions of grief and loss" ().
The poem begins:
An orca has been holding her dead calf鈥檚 body
on her back for seventeen days now. She deep
dives each time its decaying carcass slips down
into the Pacific to re-balance her baby on her head.
Katie Manning is a professor of writing at 国产剧麻豆剧 and the founding editor-in-chief of .
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