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Composed of just over 80 poems, “I Would Leave Me if I Could” is a literary mosaic congruent with the intention, content and style of her music.
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From life before quarantine to the tumultuous election, these poems provide a glimpse of the extraordinary events we’ve experienced throughout this past year.
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Nov 1, 2020 5:57AM / Wet eyes on the highwayI need to do better. / I need to be better for both of them
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And I promise you, / you never unlearned how to be strong.
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Her poetry is honest in this sense, accessing a vulnerability that clearly defines Mather as a writer who isn’t afraid to express the real, the raw and the ugly.
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I try to spit the / Seed out; instead it / suffocates in skin.
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She places a morsel of her soul in between my teeth — Nice to meet you too.
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I sit in the room full of / Empty / things that remind me of something / else.
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We see patterns everywhere / Shapes and sounds and sights / Lightly coated with dust, strands of spun gold
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I came across this phrase the other day, / reading about the orange-brown haze blanketing the world outside my window
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