A review by lelex
I Can't Talk about the Trees Without the Blood by Tiana Clark
5.0
"I woke up before anyone else and walked outside barefoot to the chilled porch still slick with a thin layer of morning dew. There was a little coral snake asleep, coiled by a rocking chair. I wasn't afraid this time."
"Jacuzzi-warm water gurgled and spun as his white robe spread around my little circumference, holy creamer."
"because you're gone & your mother is gone all because someone said you stole a backpack meaning your body was made a forgotten altar your body made bodiless kept pushing back as your trial kept pushing back & back & black matter moves backwards in time"
"Kalief Kalief Kalief this is such a poor offering but I am pouring it on the ground like a good rain & whatever softens the earth is your name whatever might grow from that darkening bright spot is your name"
"shows him how she splits herself (as I have) again and again for such a gorgeous, foolish God and man"
"Do they want you, she says, sucking her ghost teeth, or your black pain?" What's the difference? I say."
"I'm ready to find the ruined churches."
"Strange how desire is greedy and silent in stasis. Strange how two bodies can grow without branches."
"Jacuzzi-warm water gurgled and spun as his white robe spread around my little circumference, holy creamer."
"because you're gone & your mother is gone all because someone said you stole a backpack meaning your body was made a forgotten altar your body made bodiless kept pushing back as your trial kept pushing back & back & black matter moves backwards in time"
"Kalief Kalief Kalief this is such a poor offering but I am pouring it on the ground like a good rain & whatever softens the earth is your name whatever might grow from that darkening bright spot is your name"
"shows him how she splits herself (as I have) again and again for such a gorgeous, foolish God and man"
"Do they want you, she says, sucking her ghost teeth, or your black pain?" What's the difference? I say."
"I'm ready to find the ruined churches."
"Strange how desire is greedy and silent in stasis. Strange how two bodies can grow without branches."