The Sky Inside Your Body

The Sky Inside Your Body is a convergence between poet and nature. Among the seasons, winter stands out most. "Sometimes the nuns ask us to paint deer on the windows for the holidays" in a poem that ponders the right to safety. In some of the poems we witness how the trauma of war and the pains of being a refugee are reflected in the next generation. In other poems, a mother and daughter are both slipping. The mother slips into dementia and the daughter slips away from a version of the futu...