Status Updates From Buffalo Girl

"Everyday I am sticking to my route,
fleeing the scene of perpetual undoing,
carving space for a red

writhing thing at the end of the street,
at the end of my wrists—something
soft and still and holding."

"The Furies" was so visceral^

"and everything even absence
leaves a trace within the body.
and everyone even truth
is their own version of memory."

Jessica Q. Stark explores her mother's fraught immigration to the United States from Vietnam at the end of the war.

I've read couple poems and added with the gorgeous photos taken by Stark's mother, this is turning out to be an emotional and personal look at a life fiercely led.

It's also using the tale of Little Red Riding Hood to frame and call out sexism and racism.