Mother Wound

Mother Wound examines the inheritance of trauma through the lens of a daughter's experience of domestic violence and emotional abuse. These raw, vivid poems grapple with questions of identity as a girl becoming a woman, as well as a non-citizen living between homes, between countries. Structured around the rhythm cycle of Indian classical music (SA-RE-GA-MA-PA-DHA-NI-SA, equivalent to Western Solfège), Mother Wound explores the meaning of each note, mirroring the cycle of generational traum...