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I'm not really sure why this needed a foreword. But I'm even more unpleasantly uncertain as to who thought it needed a foreword written by a man.

The Call of the Wild (I have so many favorites, the whole book is my favorite.)

The difference between you and other men
is the difference
between wolf and dog
....
Every line out of my mouth is a lie
except the one that begins with I want.

Reverse: A Lynching, is so good and so awful, and so scary because its real. Probably my favorite. its really good.

Let it be known: I did not fall from grace.

I lept
to freedom

The Girl With Antlers

I tore myself out of my own mother's womb.
There was no other way to arrive in this world.
A terrified midwife named me Monster
and left me in the pine words with only the moon.
My mother's bool dripped from my treed head.

This is the first stanza!!! The first one! It's so good.

This is the last line...You are fearfully and wonderfully made.

Strong poetry here!!

amazing collection varying from odd to devastatingly sad to simply beautiful. So much talent.