Prayer Wheel
|
Out on Rinky Dink Press. It's a micro chapbook of found poems from newspaper articles about the terrible deportations. I would read these articles and didn't want to forget. I thought of each poem like turning a prayer wheel on a stupa. The micro chapbook is lovely but tiny, so it didn't include the links to the articles. I've included them below.
If you are interested in getting either chapbook, just DM me through Instagram. I have a bunch:) Melanie
|
|
ICE agents detain a mother in Pasadena in front of children without showing a warrant
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/ice-agents-detain-mother-in-pasadena-in-front-of-children-without-a-warrant/ |
It wasn't clear
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/11/california-farm-immigration-raid Donut Shop Detainees https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/us/ice-raid-altadena-palisades-rebuilding.html |
Chapbook of Prose Poetry Out
https://bottlecap.press/products/girl_fool
Girl/Fool is a collection of short prose poems that explore a sense of being outside and separate. Many poems detail the connecting thread between the natural world and the question that resides in all of us: what are we doing here, and how alone are we?
Inspired by the Penguin Book of the Prose Poem, the poems in Girl/Fool often toy with associations that are doubled, connections that are made and remade in new ways when the rules of grammar are undermined or ignored. An urgency runs through these poems that reminds us of the mystery in even the most ordinary and everyday object or occurrence.
Chapbook of Prose Poetry Out
https://bottlecap.press/products/girl_fool
Girl/Fool is a collection of short prose poems that explore a sense of being outside and separate. Many poems detail the connecting thread between the natural world and the question that resides in all of us: what are we doing here, and how alone are we?
Inspired by the Penguin Book of the Prose Poem, the poems in Girl/Fool often toy with associations that are doubled, connections that are made and remade in new ways when the rules of grammar are undermined or ignored. An urgency runs through these poems that reminds us of the mystery in even the most ordinary and everyday object or occurrence.
Fool/Girl
the doorknob to the bathroom hits our hip the edge of the ottoman our knee our vest caught by
the door handle our head hit by the open cabinet that we left open there is no one to blame for the
lessons unlearnt the mean friend hurts our feelings, our heart left wide open once again, ever
hopeful we toast marshmallows and eat marshmallows not noticing that they are still on fire we
dive into water not knowing the depth you never learn they say we sky blue fools move forward
up cliffs buoyed by our innocence undaunted by our own unsteady nature
the doorknob to the bathroom hits our hip the edge of the ottoman our knee our vest caught by
the door handle our head hit by the open cabinet that we left open there is no one to blame for the
lessons unlearnt the mean friend hurts our feelings, our heart left wide open once again, ever
hopeful we toast marshmallows and eat marshmallows not noticing that they are still on fire we
dive into water not knowing the depth you never learn they say we sky blue fools move forward
up cliffs buoyed by our innocence undaunted by our own unsteady nature