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Thank the Sweet Waters: Poems

Paperback – December 2, 2025
By Lucille May

Thank the Sweet Waters is a luminous debut collection that lingers in the quiet, intimate moments where love takes root and where the sacred reveals itself in the smallest gestures. With a voice both grounded and tender, Lucille May writes of devotion in its everyday forms—soft mornings, shared rituals, the hush of shifting seasons, and the subtle transformations that accompany a life built in partnership.

These poems are suffused with sensuality and sincerity, tracing the contours of May’s love for her wife as it deepens into the longing for motherhood. The collection expands further—beautifully, vulnerably—when another kind of love enters the frame: the complicated, deeply human affection she develops for the man who may help them conceive. The result is a portrait of desire, doubt, generosity, and chosen connection that refuses to collapse into easy binaries.

May’s lyric clarity captures the tremor between yearning and acceptance, the spaciousness of queer family-making, and the holiness of touching another life with intention. Her poems move like water—patient, reflective, aware of the light—offering readers a meditation on what it means to stay present through change, to keep choosing one another, and to trust that love can hold more than one truth at once.

Intimate, expansive, and unforgettable, Thank the Sweet Waters is a celebration of queer tenderness and the sacred rhythms of everyday life.

Format: Paperback (perfect bound)