Slip/page is a collection of poems focused on themes of motherhood, trauma, and grief. In some poems, formal constraint creates a container for the emotional messiness of grief. In others, formal chaos mimics the shattering experience trauma, especially the trauma of childbirth. My overarching concern in this manuscript is the slippery nature of human existence and relationships: the impossibility of holding what we love, and the inevitability of losing what we have and even who we are.