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nattyyllie's review against another edition
3.0
(3.5 star)
Favorite poems/quotes:
ode to buttoning and unbuttoning my shirt
“and the honeybee’s legs furred with pollen mean another thing to me than on the other days which too have been drizzled in this simplest of joys”
burial
“when he knew he could make you happy just by being a little silly and sweet.”
spoon
“Don peered at me again with those sad eyes, or through me, or into me, the way my dead do sometimes, looking straight into their homes, which hopefully have flowers in a vase on a big wooden table, and a comfortable chair or two, and huge windows through which light pours to wash clean and make a touch less awful what forever otherwise will hurt.”
the opening
“the way Myself had made unwittingly a habit of slathering mortar everywhere, almost by accident, for fear of what might forever slip in and be felt;”
catalog of unabashed gratitude
“what do you think this singing and shuddering is, what this screaming and reaching and dancing and crying is, other than loving what every second goes away?”
Favorite poems/quotes:
ode to buttoning and unbuttoning my shirt
“and the honeybee’s legs furred with pollen mean another thing to me than on the other days which too have been drizzled in this simplest of joys”
burial
“when he knew he could make you happy just by being a little silly and sweet.”
spoon
“Don peered at me again with those sad eyes, or through me, or into me, the way my dead do sometimes, looking straight into their homes, which hopefully have flowers in a vase on a big wooden table, and a comfortable chair or two, and huge windows through which light pours to wash clean and make a touch less awful what forever otherwise will hurt.”
the opening
“the way Myself had made unwittingly a habit of slathering mortar everywhere, almost by accident, for fear of what might forever slip in and be felt;”
catalog of unabashed gratitude
“what do you think this singing and shuddering is, what this screaming and reaching and dancing and crying is, other than loving what every second goes away?”
katharina90's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
Wanted to like this more than I did. I appreciated the language, and the humor alongside the more serious notes. What I struggled with most was the poet's meandering style.
Favorites:
-burial
-sharing with the ants
-to the mulberry tree
Favorites:
-burial
-sharing with the ants
-to the mulberry tree
Content Warnings
Moderate: Grief and Death
Minor: Ableism, Murder, and Racial slurs
heybethany's review
4.0
I am trying, I think, to forgive myself
for something I don’t know what.
But what I do know is that I love the moment when the poet says
I am trying to do this
or I am trying to do that.