Warm night in July.

Abstract

From the perspective of a mother with young children, this free verse poem describes one experience of miscarriage, including physical and psychological trauma as well as confusion and shock. Reflecting upon the mother's need for care in the context of her own caregiving responsibilities, the poem weaves her words with the words of her health care providers. It also engages with the language commonly used to describe or label fetuses, living, or dead, and how that language can shape the psychological experience of pregnancy and pregnancy loss. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).