fearless as I seam

by Abigail Zimmer

Rain bores through dirt. Clouds grow denser and light scatters. In this binding mania, I sink to mud. Above the ankle, all air. In a hollow, Earth pushes out quintuplets, sets them up like trees to hear the land. So many dolls. So many dolls without shadows. When the sky recedes, when the second sky holds court, something missing among the scraps.

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Abigail Zimmer lives in Chicago where she is the poetry editor for The Lettered Streets Press. Her work has appeared in Jellyfish, ILK, Whiskey Island, The New Megaphone, and Fairy Tale Review, among others.

Genres: Poetry

36 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

Abigail Zimmer is the author of girls their tongues (Orange Monkey Publishing, 2017) and the chapbooks fearless as I seam (dancing girl press, 2014) and child in a winter house brightening (Tree Light Books, 2016), which received the Chicago Review of Books’ 2016 Poetry Award. She lives in Chicago where she is the editor of The Lettered Streets Press. She reviews books on Instagram at @book.wreck.

Reviews

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

"It is the most comfortable direction, away from the heart."

[Felicia Owens · Rating 5 out of 5]

need to read this again SOON. so much packed into here, love how the poems are so interrelated!