My first Mother's Day without my mother. The first of many. This is how it will always be now. No more mother. No more her. My body can't hold the pain. The pain never ends.



Photos by Miyako Ishiuchi, from her series "Mother's"

Sources: Elephant, Sabukaru, Aperture




Louise Bourgeois — "Maman" (1999)

Source: Guggenheim



"Mother" by Tori Amos

go go go go now
out of the nest it's time
go go go now
circus girl without a safety net


"Sorrowful Soil" by Björk

In a woman's lifetime
She gets four hundred eggs
But only two or three nests
Woven with a mother's life force