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kdawn999's review
3.0
Some slashingly honest lines in a mode that echoes Plath in places. However, the coherence of the collection is on the mystical blood bonds of motherhood and trauma, and I can’t say I felt completely moved by the woman-wound images here.
shiloniz's review
5.0
"I release nothing [a body can only hold so much / & mine ride or die bitch, loyal to a fault holds longest] / we who have been damaged / we whose eyes salt over at the slightest kind touch / & for whom the salt later cracks the concrete"
taylorthiel's review
4.0
If this collection were a coin, one side would be delicacy, the other a knife’s edge. So much of motherhood/womanhood is found in balancing the two and these poems nail it. There’s a braveness in the language and a harshened to the images that continually shocked and intrigued me. The collection won me over with its surprising turns and even some moments of great humor.
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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