📚 15/31 PORTAGE by Sarah Ann Winn. Excerpt from “Alma”: “Gorge of girl, shaped by erosion, gorgeous, engorged by trees..” ♥️ Another beautiful collection. #TheSealeyChallenge

📚 14/31 SEED, STAR, SONG by May Chong. Excerpt from “Tembeling”: “The new rubies/of wild cinnamon leaves, and/the jewelbox of jungle flowers/are this earth’s exclamation:/we are still alive.” ♥️♥️♥️ Every poem in this collection is gorgeous. #TheSealeyChallenge

📚 13/31 MOTHER IS THE NAME FOR GOD by Judith Kingston. Excerpt from “III. Pentheus, My Son: “I never knew love until I became a mother./I was gentle and meek as a maid,but now I am a fierce lioness.” Bacchae is sadder than I remembered. #TheSealeyChallenge

📚 12/31 WHEN I WAS A GIRL by Jennifer Jackson Berry. Excerpt: “the boy will be stiff if & only stiff/if the girl is light as a feather & not bored.” #TheSealeyChallenge

📚 11/31 NEGOTIATING WITH OBJECTS by Lisa M Cole. Excerpt from “After the Ever-Glow”: “The hearse. The hearsay./The hypothesis of your body:/a perfectly measured cake.” #TheSealeyChallenge

📚 10/31 BOTTOMLAND by Erin Elkins Radcliffe. #TheSealeyChallenge

📚 9/31 MEND by Kristin LaTour & Angel E. Perez. #TheSealeyChallenge

Want to read: Bad Habits by Amy Gentry 📚

📚 8/31 CHICKENHAWKS & GOLDILOCKS by Grey Vild. Excerpt from “A prayer no one wants to”: “But you smiled when you traced my name in your inventory & I unspooled, fled my tethers, reached so far into the sun no one could find me.” #TheSealeyChallenge

📚 7/31 SPACE BABY: EPISODES I - III by Nicole Oquendo. Excerpt from “I.vi.”: “You have read about the cats of a far planet, how the tamers/will poke with a wooden sword until the animals lean on hind legs/in a kind of stance. Never you.” Sexy and creepy. #TheSealeyChallenge