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My Seaborgium: Poems

My Seaborgium: Poems

Myers, Alicia Rebecca
Kiki, Petrosino

Paperback

Series: Mineral Point Poetry, Book 2

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $9.95

ISBN10: 1942083149
ISBN13: 9781942083146
Publisher: Brain Mill Press
Published: Jan 18 2016
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.12 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

My Seaborgium sings songs of loss and growth, motherhood and viscera, elements and experience, with love and relatable grace.

I'll tell you the story, the opening poem coos, of how / I rolled around in a mail truck full of other / people's letters, I was that happy / to be your mother. This speaker guides us into her expectant waiting, calling on insight from what she knows of her parents, what she thought she knew about her body, fables and gods. She asks all of these potential sources of wisdom to attend to her as forty weeks go by and she tries to detach because it makes birth manageable, even as she tests her nipples to see if they lift / away from the breast while standing on a mountain / and trying to spot a suitcase on the ground below. My Seaborgium travels toward motherhood from before, during, and after the experiences of pregnancy and birth, as the speaker imagines the thickening of her infant's fur and readies for the bloody show. The only wisdom she gleans from her passage is the live and atomic feeling that arrives for a child whom she tells to be your element's namesake / and alive, know it. My Seaborgium. This is a book fat with heavy and wild love.

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