Not Flowers

by Noreen Ocampo

Overview

NOT FLOWERS is a collection of quiet juxtapositions: the wonder and loneliness of childhood, the magic and loss of places left behind, the resilience and imperfection of the love we give each other. More than anything, these poems are an attempt to write toward joy, toward futures in which we buy flowers for ourselves.

Poetry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781955602068
Publisher:	Variant Literature
Publication date:	03/22/2022
Pages:	40
Product dimensions:	4.80(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Noreen Ocampo is a Filipina American writer and poet currently based in Atlanta. Her work appears in {m}aganda Magazine, Taco Bell Quarterly, and Hobart, among others, and she also edits for Marías at Sampaguitas, Sampaguita Press, and the COUNTERCLOCK blog. She studies English, film, and media at Emory University, where she is in her senior year, and most enjoys writing lists, jokes, and happy endings.

Table of Contents

White snapdragon

Peachtree 1

Fool's gold 2

Dear 3

Limonium

Lullabies 6

Seven 7

How I became indebted to a fourteen-year-old 8

Kitchen 9

Yellow rose

Love poem on the taste of a favorite memory 12

The worst day of my life was 13

Candle day 14

Some nights I think I won't dream of you and then 15

In which I am cast in a Studio Ghibli film 16

Dianthus

Crane game 20

Simple future 21

Litmus test 22

Yesterday, I watched videos on manifesting 23

Acknowledgements 26

About the Author 29