Into the Wolf Lucy Mercer The Girl Who Forgets How

The Girl Who Forgets How to Walk finds comfort in the ancient limestone of her home county as she teaches herself to move again along its hills and coastlines

Jalil al-Qaisi – A Short Story Zulaikha

Originally stitched into the fabric of a dress

or in those poems that chronicle the experience of illness in the time of covid

Into the Wolf Lucy Mercer The Girl Who Forgets HowA LYRICAL AND, AT TIMES, CHALLENGING first collection that settles, in a satisfying stream of synchronicity, into a 3 4 5 6 pattern. There are three broad categories. Four of the poems are inspired by shapeshifting the poets shamanic world view and include a whirlwind tour of nations where shamanic practices and beliefs remain deeply baked into their underlying structures. Five poems are autobiographical in nature, predominantly about pain and death;