<p>The poems in <em>A Language Like Water</em> explore conflicts challenges and connections in a daughter's relationship with her mother over a lifetime.&nbsp;These poems resonate with longing and struggle as the daughter seeks to understand and restore her complicated mother an enigmatic figure who struggles with depression.&nbsp;Ultimately the daughter recognizes her own strengths as she acknowledges moments and memories of sharing and connection.</p><p></p><p></p>