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Recovery Commands
98 pages, Paperback
Published June 1, 2025
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September 7, 2025
Beautifully done. Not a single wasted word. Best book of poems I’ve read this year
October 21, 2025
Poems like these are so needed.
July 3, 2025
A collection of poems about being a military spouse, survival, war, pacificism, identity, grief, and love.
from Hello, I Am Not a Soldier: "And yet I wear caution like a uniform / now, pulling myself into its rough sleeves // and old boots each morning / before I even think of coffee or how // the me who returns to this bed will not be / the me who left it."
from When I Tell You I Love You: "we feel / what I think is love fumbling for the generator, / lights blinking on in the city of us, / and there are people with suitcases lined up / on the streets of our marriage like memories, / and when I tell you I love you what I mean is / our memories travel in times of upheaval / from the mind toward the rib cage, crossing / that treacherous, tender river of throat."
from What It's Like to Wonder Whose Country it Was First: "it must have happened: a drink from a stream / so perfect a man broke his heart on it. In his grief, / he called it his, and we've been dying ever since."
from Hello, I Am Not a Soldier: "And yet I wear caution like a uniform / now, pulling myself into its rough sleeves // and old boots each morning / before I even think of coffee or how // the me who returns to this bed will not be / the me who left it."
from When I Tell You I Love You: "we feel / what I think is love fumbling for the generator, / lights blinking on in the city of us, / and there are people with suitcases lined up / on the streets of our marriage like memories, / and when I tell you I love you what I mean is / our memories travel in times of upheaval / from the mind toward the rib cage, crossing / that treacherous, tender river of throat."
from What It's Like to Wonder Whose Country it Was First: "it must have happened: a drink from a stream / so perfect a man broke his heart on it. In his grief, / he called it his, and we've been dying ever since."
October 22, 2025
Powerful, a voice for the ages, intricate in it's exploration and so very human. It's a beautiful book, hungrily readable, so rich and full of life (+ death). I feel the music. Highly recommend.
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