The Lumberjack's Dove
From the Mother Tongue Spells & Invocation collection.
Nominated by Design Strategist, Creative Director & Gallery Owner Mitch Jafery |
"A folkloric spell of metamorphosis, where loss carves language into wings and myth becomes the body’s way of remembering itself." |
In the ingenious and vividly imagined narrative poem The Lumberjack’s Dove, GennaRose Nethercott describes a lumberjack who cuts his hand off with an axe—however, instead of merely being severed, the hand shapeshifts into a dove. Far from representing just an event of pain and loss in the body, this incident spirals outward to explore countless facets of being human, prompting profound reflections on sacrifice and longing, time and memory, and—finally—considering the act of storytelling itself.
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The Mother Tongue Library is a love letter to the thinkers, writers, and artists who’ve given us the language of courage when we needed it most.
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