Things are not always what they seem in these poems of trauma and transformation. Reflections and shape-shifters move through them: a child's balloon like a fish with a hook in its mouth, a raven disturbingly alive and dead at the same time. Pain is tracked to a bad tooth, but the source is uncertain, the memory unstable and changeable, the picture splinters into refracted light. Remembering, refusing and reimagining create mirrors, doubles and oppositions that tangle the thread, rejecting the simple, single way back.
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(@RoughTradeBooks, 1 June 2020, ebook, 24 pages, borrowed from @natpoetrylib via @OverDriveInc)
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This is a new poet for me. I really enjoyed the poems in Milk Tooth. I was impressed by the imagery used and the style of the poems. They have dark undertones but also have a lot of light and love in them. I enjoyed every poem.