Mother Self

"I take your offering to my mother self, press your soft words against my wailing lips. We gather scattered blocks, carry them on our backs, your sun-face carving a path through the waves, we build our lighthouse." Good Mum - Madhushala Senaratne

"In Mother Self, Madhushala Senaratne's poems will take you along on a mother's journey as usher, witness, and protector, through birth stories told in frank, beautiful language, to gentle moments woven scraps of paper wrappings, bits of scribbled notes and paper boats. She is at once voyeur, keen observer, hand holder, and poet. She is Mother, Self, Voice. She is you." Ellen Rowland, author of No Small Thing