NGL Flounce Shares "Womb" from Poetry Series "When Mom Is Gone"
”Womb” is the first poem from the collection When Mom Is Gone by Montreal-based multimedia artist NGL Flounce. In the author’s words, the series focuses on themes of “craving, losing, and then finding motherhood.” Read the piece “Womb,” and keep an eye out for her following works to be released as a short series in the coming weeks.
Illustration by Reilly Webster
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Womb
Eyes close, Head tilts
Backwards, Weight lifts,
Water calmly
Lifts my body.
Sensations numbed,
Protection all
Around my shape,
My mind is blank.
Safety cared for,
Almost Love with
No condition:
Wishful thinking...
The bath is cold,
I fear the truth,
I stand and look:
Illusion gone.
Lost and scared of
Giant setting,
Gasps for breath when
Coming panic.
I wish she would
Be here with me
And hold, embrace,
Relieve my cries,
Eat me full and
Pull me back in
Haste, in fear of
Death, Her only,
Her child, alone,
And only her
Is strong enough,
Can love enough.
Save me mother!
Take me home to
Peace and warmth,
Let me fill your
Womb.
NGL Flounce is a multimedia artist from France and Madagascar based in Montreal, Canada. Her main interests are poetry, spoken word, music production, and DJing under the name NGL Flounce. Her narrative and lyrical poems form nuanced sketches of self-reflection, loss, sexuality, culture, cycles of life and earth, and the critique of Eco-Fascism.
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Illustration by Reilly Webster