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Continue reading →: It Was You The Whole Time
It was you the whole time. Before I knew I was pregnant. When two lines showed up even though that second one was faint. When I texted our midwife with the happy news even though it was early. But see, I’ve learned there’s no such thing as “early.” Just you!…
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Continue reading →: Mommy Is Human But Here (and other postpartum reflections)
Hey kids, I’m crying in the kitchen, but I love you. And I still want you in my life! Hey kids, I want to enjoy mothering, but I feel like a machine. Yes, I want to enjoy mothering, but I feel like a machine. And I want to go outside…
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Continue reading →: Should You Become a Mother
to the mothers now and those who will be. . . Should you become a mother, yes you can give birth in happiness, with celebration though a generation asks why would you ever bring a child into this world? And you look at the world you’re living in with a…
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Continue reading →: How Thoroughly God Gives Life!
In 2020, while a child grew in me, I returned to the thing I had loved to do as a child. Writing poetry. And I wrote the years down. Infertility. My silent screaming. God’s history of love to me. My grief. The garden. The starkness of the bathroom floor. The…
Hi!
I’m Sierra
Welcome to my cottage garden in the foothills of California! I’m a poet, gardener, and sunflower enthusiast. Follow for personal poetry and prose rooted in my Christian faith and inspired by the turn of seasons both out of doors and in the soul. Find my short stories on Substack – Green Fables.♥️
Sierra V. Fedorko 