I will become happy and lovable and open about the miscarriage and forgive everything and everyone and tolerate it all / If you let me hear a heartbeat tomorrow.

A Teeny Tiny Heart is a book about two miscarriages and a wedding, about pregnancy that doesn’t go according to plan, about grief and embarrassment and new beginnings. The poems by Nyhus are inviting, painful, humorous, warm, desperate. The act of loving is followed by hoping, looking forward to, bleeding, grieving, loving once more.