A review by somethingarosie
So Bright So Bright So Bright by Adam Lawlor

4.0

I won ‘So Bright So Bright So Bright’ in a Storygraph giveaway. I really enjoyed reading this. Of course, some pieces resonated with me more than others, but Lawlor’s writing shows so much potential. I am eager to read whatever they write next. 

The following is my favourite piece from the collection, one of the most beautiful passages I have read in a long time:

Take your pain 

unfold it

wear it warmly

on the surface of your skin 

feel it raised

following,

branching from

trunked and rough-barked trauma 

outward from arm and thigh 

to delicate web,

crystalline at your warm fingertips, 

and spread this newness, 

this beauty from lightning, 

this flash and heat

reaching from

 then to now.