Sonnet to an embryo: poems for pregnancy loss by Dawn Apiarist

TW: This poetry collection focuses on the subject of miscarriage and baby loss. The collection opens with Star Carrier, a tender poem of the four children making the author a mum, even though none very sadly made it to life. Sky, was a simple tender poem of how it feels like the light leaves with each loss. Dissociation, about how the days feel heavy and blur together in the aftermath of such tender loss. It wasn't really, about how crushing people can make it sound when the life, the baby was never birthed, yet they did exist and were growing, becoming a real living baby. The sadness, the questioning for no answers to be unveiled and so relatable to me being the same age to experience it too as the author. The final poem of the book simply titled Poetry, was a beautiful finish to the book and honesty, it was a read that captured the pain of miscarriage. The collection is tender and raw with the emotions that you encounter and are forced to feel and embrace to work through when facing baby loss.