“Examine your prison, every now and again,

focus. Do it slowly. With regard.”

In this radically vulnerable collection of poems, Laura Lewis-Waters opens up to share some of the most private struggles she and her family faced during the recent pandemic as she and her husband welcomed her first child into the world.

Exploring the impact of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder on a new family and the challenge of beginning the journey of motherhood in isolation, she lays bare the most raw of emotions in a creative, visceral and hauntingly beautiful manner.