the strange and animal

Here live the misfits, the edgelands, the unusual. Childhood, wilderness and death come together in this collection of light and dark, love and loss, which will invite you in to a strange new way of seeing.

my skin unzipped last night under the wolf moon dark and alive and i stepped out green with eyes as yellow as morning toes sharp as winter and a heart of moss

This collection began as a gathering of the misfits, the weird, the discomforting and the wonderful, the poems at the edges that could not find belonging. But through bringing them together, themes began to emerge. Family, and glimpses of childhood. Death - not frightening, not gloomy, morbid or dark, but explored with curiosity and an offering of friendship.

I welcome you to step outside of the everyday and the domestic, and into the world of the strange and animal, where skin turns green and flesh becomes soil, where a child studies the body of a bat, and an adult carefully gathers bones from a fireplace. Where we can shed our comforts and our knowing, and become one with the edgelands, finding a new way to open our selves to the world.

when the soil falls from my fingers covers him quilt of forest and love

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