Nº6 in the Platypus Press 2412 chapbook series
"The irony, of course, is now that I am growing hyperaware how fast my time is ticking down, I can't stop noticing what I never did before. Finding things to adore, things to stick to, that my eyes have always skip-stumbled over: a gecko humming on the wall, exhilarated by its own smallness. Tourists at a bus stop smoothing down their frizz-static hair, already learning the language of a country halfway between humid & a hard place. Orchid on the table, gasping & singing into bloom. This is the way that remembering happens."
A rumination on loss & longing, on home & hustle, on memory & monsoon season.
***
[The wildness of this life grows & grows & continues to astound me with how large it is, how little I know of it] ***(Platypus Press, 1 December 2016, ebook, 12 pages, freebie from the publisher)
***
***
This chapbook is a memoir rather than some poems like other chapbooks in the series. The language used is very rich and vivid and a pleasure to read. I got a real sense of time and place. This little memoir is structured as if the author is a good friend chatting to you. This works really well and creates an intimate mood.
