13 pages
Published 2024
Read October 21
Rating: 4 out of 5
A micro chapbook: nine poems about religious trauma, slow apocalypses, wax play, and standing up despite the patriarchy. Blair excels at parallels, shocks of connecting synapses that throw sexual and religious motifs into chiaroscuro relief. Birds deliver prophecies, and kings turn women into birds; women and birds alike wind up in cages. Christ’s stigmata might give him a shiver of arousal, like pressing upon a bruise. Proverbial father figures and daddy issues loom in the heavens: “As long as you realize that / Father is always right.”
A breathtaking and brilliant little collection.
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