“UnBecoming” a review by Candice Louisa Daquin
“hypnotic and endlessly intense”
Author: Hokis
Hokis is an American poet of Armenian descent. Her upcoming collection "OnBecoming" is a poetic memoir detailing her personal rise from political trauma. Creative nonfiction as foreshadowing preface, and other published works, found on hokis.blog.
Guns are a Social Glue
the self-soothing white stickywe wipe our hands of only to dry, so we may peel itoff in one long strip, revealingour uniquely ugly palm. Sunday schooled, white washedhodgepodged coated strips ofthat…
Twenty Plus this One
The neighboorhood I lived in had perfectly cut grass and clumps of flowers, A rapist lived next door. A rapist lived around the corner. My mother required I be nice to…
Family of Five
Solidarity in my pill box Five meds each day Should I test fate/ith again? go from five to zero in one second flat? go off the guard rail along the mountaintop…
Green(gas)lit District
at the bottom end of the mouth tubesphincter held in place.like an ancient book of rules forthe white cotton masters, this puppeteer,once again …
The Fault of Past Shadows
Mirrored reflection theirs of then’s destruction Mothers of Earth quake. Tears fill, salt redeems common landscape, or the fault is Ours. Photo by Ivana Cajina on Unsplash
BOOK NOOK | EDITOR’S REVIEW: Elisabeth Horan’s “ALCOHOLIC BETTY”
Believe what you want, but I believe Elisabeth Horan. Her raw use of precision words and language-play leaves a pile of spittle on your pillow like that left by the…
Drips of Dew
Long ago and far away, atop a mountain, Promises were made. Ideal, naive selves present. Words without witness fall too easily to the ground. Do they splash or pop? Or…
