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Do some girls find another measure of moonlight, live amid the rain, half-sung roses in the hope someday they can carry them?Why do some of us permanently vanish, others disappear only to come back a...

In these poems, the night can't always be trusted. Things get carried away, a woman's voice, body. But some of us refuse to parenthesis want forever behind a barbed wire fence, decide to mother the...

What is it that threads through our life amongst the trees' nesting, threads through our family, marriage, hopes, pain? What does it take to be here? How can our children teach us about the future,...

In the mish mush universe where fizzywicks like to play while queens and bunnies bale the hay where tadpoles turn the small to big cats and mice hoard tea and fig where strangeness is a lizard fair...

Set in Scotland, this collection of poems is a meditation on the nature of modern life, home, relationship, equity, longing. Through a variety of people, landscapes and experiences these poems...

In the Polar UniverseAuthor: Toni ThomasPublisher: Annalese PressPublication Date: Jun 17, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1739445775ISBN-13: 9781739445775

Inside her was a lonely father, son, daughter, husband cardplaying with winter, inside her was decency, the scalloped hem of an uncramped song, and snow, snow, rivers of it traveling, traveling...

This collection of poems by award winning author Toni Thomas explores the nature of love, challenges of relationship, family, the hopes we carry, things that threaten to fall apart. The poems grapple...

This collection of poems explores the nature of perishing; how lovers, places, family can disappear before we are even able to claim them. The poems circle longing, faith, the preciousness of...

Sometimes loss is a heavy boat we travel in, a girl minding snow by the river. Not all things last forever. What would it be like to listen to winter and not flinch, let an ancient language wash over...

Are some lives diminutive, do they come to us as a hidden pearl, unnoticed vestibule. Will the woman heavy with longing find a way to meet banishment with a different gaze? This collection of poems...

What is the key we enter by? How is it that invisible bread sometimes arrives unbidden in the cramped of our soul's kitchen. What does it mean to be tender, a woman, alone, pregnant, uncertain of her...

Sometimes love turns a blind eye, the seasons of a life go missing. Are there women who sail away, refind the skin that was peeled from them, slide back into your dark water? These poems explore the...

The girl with thirst on her tongue wants to taste liquid kisses. In the dowry of her heart a pole star burns bright as a secret corridor. These poems are a playful attempt to understand our humanity,...