lifeinpoetry's review
5.0
Have you ever needed to lie
flat as if dead against the rockmarked earth
& listen to the voices licking against the sky
your past shuffling through the leaves like a remix
till you finally realize what your life has meant —
& it aches?
When the truth comes, let it come like jewelweed
wilding beside the poison ivy. The antidote
within our reach.
(from “Today I Learned the Word Mondegreen”)
That boy! Kissed me!
What happens next
is nothing.
Nothing unroots.
Nothing rots.
Healing a motherbroken
space for at least the handful
of us, at least for now,
has to be enough.
Amen.
(from “Retablos & Other Miracles”)
I’ve bled without telling
a soul, not ghosted or clinging
to this sticky world, what hunger
compels me onward.
It’s not that I cannot care
about the world we’ve broken.
All afternoon I’ve believed
in my own strength.
(from “Retablos & Other Miracles”)
flat as if dead against the rockmarked earth
& listen to the voices licking against the sky
your past shuffling through the leaves like a remix
till you finally realize what your life has meant —
& it aches?
When the truth comes, let it come like jewelweed
wilding beside the poison ivy. The antidote
within our reach.
(from “Today I Learned the Word Mondegreen”)
That boy! Kissed me!
What happens next
is nothing.
Nothing unroots.
Nothing rots.
Healing a motherbroken
space for at least the handful
of us, at least for now,
has to be enough.
Amen.
(from “Retablos & Other Miracles”)
I’ve bled without telling
a soul, not ghosted or clinging
to this sticky world, what hunger
compels me onward.
It’s not that I cannot care
about the world we’ve broken.
All afternoon I’ve believed
in my own strength.
(from “Retablos & Other Miracles”)
jenvini's review
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
" I carried darkness into the forest & sliced it out."
jenniferlynnkrohn's review
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
5.0
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