Status Updates From Şimdilik Her Şey Yolunda

Picked up this book because it’s short to be honest. Each week I visit the public library to study and check out nothing. I’m going to check out a book every time I go so my patronage counts!

I’ve also always heard wonderful things about this author.

Ordered her entire poetry collection...

All abroad

“The world may be as it used to be / but I am altered, I the eye that sees / all half known, half strange as if newborn / and fresh to its mortality.”

“Night”

Heaven is not my home. / O may we come at last to land / in the mercy of the wind.

“Westering”

this little boat my body / its ragged sail my soul / going where the stars go