As You Lie Sleeping

Microscopic heart, when it took its rst beat,
Little did I know it would change everything about me.
Growing a tiny being in our bodies and then bringing it into the world
can be beautiful, frightening, joyful, and overwhelming-sometimes
all at once. Women have been living this miraculous experience for
centuries, yet for each, it is uniquely di erent.
In a postpartum poetry collection, Misty Rivers delves into the raw,
spiritual, and emotional terrain of early motherhood. With erce
honesty and lyrical depth, her poems explore themes of identity
loss, ancestral pain, inner awakening, and rebirth through the eyes
of a new mother. Each section reveals a stage of psychological and
spiritual transformation, culminating in a powerful reclamation of
voice, love, and self. Her poems are not lullabies, but instead battle
cries and whispered prayers, written in the still hours between feeding
and healing.
As You Lie Sleeping shares poems that o er a raw, lyrical journey
through the postpartum mind, birthing new identity through grief,
myth, and motherhood.