This dam, this shiver, this filling--

Here is what I have wanted.

I was happy, but now?

Smoke rises from bushes in my heart.

I would bludgeon and steal for you.

Hang myself in the streets for you.

Mother is a lyric video set to pieces from Schumann’s Frauenliebe und leben, Expanding beyond literal perceptions of Motherhood, or ‘womanhood,’ Mother decides to omit elements of the song cycle - and weaves spoken word throughout- in an homage to our natural world.

I come back to your unsoiled fingers. When my body smells you I drip pearls of life on the hardwood floor. White liquids of your reliance. You have tempered my restlessness. I will find aquifers for you and will freshen air. I will pull disease from this earth before I let you feel harm. This is a whole body love.