sometimes, forest
Set in the coastal temperate rainforest, the poems in sometimes, forest alternatively rail at and desire a beloved who is sometimes forest, sometimes lover, friend, mother, or the absent aspect the speaker yearns for in herself. The forest, though, continues foresting, existing as a space of its own, independent of the speaker’s wants or needs, simultaneously a place of refuge and a place of harm or mistake where bodies periodically appear and disappear. Returning day after day to the same woods, the speaker notices minute seasonal changes and considers her own internal changes, too.

Meanwhile, fires, heat domes, and landslides mirror the hormonal heat and biological surges compelling these urgent conversations. Considering how networks of lateral support mitigate and challenge hierarchical, individualistic structures, sometimes, forest develops a theory of hylofeminism (“hylo” from the Greek meaning “woods” or “forest matter”) that attends to a deep, communal connection with nature as a relational way of being with the self and the more-than-human world.

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sometimes, forest
Set in the coastal temperate rainforest, the poems in sometimes, forest alternatively rail at and desire a beloved who is sometimes forest, sometimes lover, friend, mother, or the absent aspect the speaker yearns for in herself. The forest, though, continues foresting, existing as a space of its own, independent of the speaker’s wants or needs, simultaneously a place of refuge and a place of harm or mistake where bodies periodically appear and disappear. Returning day after day to the same woods, the speaker notices minute seasonal changes and considers her own internal changes, too.

Meanwhile, fires, heat domes, and landslides mirror the hormonal heat and biological surges compelling these urgent conversations. Considering how networks of lateral support mitigate and challenge hierarchical, individualistic structures, sometimes, forest develops a theory of hylofeminism (“hylo” from the Greek meaning “woods” or “forest matter”) that attends to a deep, communal connection with nature as a relational way of being with the self and the more-than-human world.

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by Elee Kraljii Gardiner
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sometimes, forest

by Elee Kraljii Gardiner

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Set in the coastal temperate rainforest, the poems in sometimes, forest alternatively rail at and desire a beloved who is sometimes forest, sometimes lover, friend, mother, or the absent aspect the speaker yearns for in herself. The forest, though, continues foresting, existing as a space of its own, independent of the speaker’s wants or needs, simultaneously a place of refuge and a place of harm or mistake where bodies periodically appear and disappear. Returning day after day to the same woods, the speaker notices minute seasonal changes and considers her own internal changes, too.

Meanwhile, fires, heat domes, and landslides mirror the hormonal heat and biological surges compelling these urgent conversations. Considering how networks of lateral support mitigate and challenge hierarchical, individualistic structures, sometimes, forest develops a theory of hylofeminism (“hylo” from the Greek meaning “woods” or “forest matter”) that attends to a deep, communal connection with nature as a relational way of being with the self and the more-than-human world.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781772017113
Publisher: Talonbooks, Limited
Publication date: 04/14/2026
Pages: 112
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Elee Kraljii Gardiner is the author of two poetry books, Trauma Head (Anvil Press, 2018) and serpentine loop (Anvil Press, 2016). She is editor of the anthologies Against Death: 35 Essays on Living (Anvil Press, 2019) and V6A: Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2012) and nine anthologies from Thursdays Writing Collective, a program she founded with Downtown Eastside writers. She is also author of the chapbooks Trauma Head: the medical file (Otter Press, 2017) and Residence (Otter Press, 2023).

Originally from Boston, Elee lives in Vancouver, where she directs Vancouver Manuscript Intensive, a program pairing authors with mentors. She serves as the seventh Poet Laureate of Vancouver until the conclusion of 2028 and is focusing on sound-related projects

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