Child, I Will Always Carry You celebrates the sacredness of motherhood. This volume depicts the wonder and loss that a young mother encounters through raising children. For the narrator, family life serves as a chrysalis that transforms her. The collection portrays ordinary moments as windows into deeper themes of connection and separation, joy and grief, gratitude, and life and death. Some poems function as hymns of gratitude, others are prayers, and still others are comic sketches of the hilarity of home life.

Margaret H. Smith lives with her husband and four children along the shores of Lake Champlain in Vermont. She works as a mental health therapist at her private practice, New Song Counseling.