I wrote "United in Liquid Love" featured in my second poetry collection "Warm Water Poems" and first published in Consilience Journal Field Notes, Volume 2, Family Trees (both published in September 2024) for the women in my family.
I think of our family tree growing next to a beautiful lake we all swim in together, with its branches kindly holding our towels.
On a Sunday morning in January of 2022 I started my cold water adventure by writing a poem that later became part of my first collection, Cold Water Poems. Now I invite you to read Warm Water Poems, with poems about warmer water and my thoughts on completing the challenge of swimming in 24 different bodies of water in 2024.
The foreign element of water has been most welcoming to me. I will donate all royalites for Cold Water Poems and Warm Water Poems to the International Rescue Committee.
Founded at the call of Albert Einstein in 1933, the IRC is now at work in over 50 crisis-affected countries as well as communities throughout Europe and the Americas.
Music by my son Noah Mahler, find his music here, Instagram @noahmahler._
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