“OnBecoming” a review by Candice Louisa Daquin
“hypnotic and endlessly intense”
Category: Poetry
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
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…
OnBecoming, available for purchase
OnBecoming is a heroic story of rising from political trauma. The collection holds readers by the gripped fist, navigating the only way out of a dark place; taking on the tedious task of unwinding mindsets and patterns, digging deep into the resilience of ancestral blood, and fighting gravity to rise from grief.
