...I had a need, an animal need, to find
a place I had never been but which was
still, in some undeniable way, my home.
-Charlotte Wood
Jordemoder
jorde: earth/soil/land/world
moder: mother
an age-old Swedish word
for Midwife
Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee,
Wisconsin Writers Association award recipient,
immigrant farmer's daughter and ecological midwife,
Ingrid Andersson writes from visceral common ground.
Ingrid's articles, essays, and poems have been published
in journals and anthologies nationally and internationally.
As a licensed midwife, she has attended more than
a thousand births at home.
Ingrid lives in Madison, Wisconsin with
her life partner, rescue dog, chickens and bees.
Published by Holy Cow! Press
Moth
is what an apostle
of Linnaeus named it.
But at this kitchen table
in this liminal hour, I am tired
of men's takes on nature....