Testament: Poems (The TRP Chapbook Series)

Testament bears witness to traumas - cultural, personal, and spiritual - as well as moments of revelatory transport. While the catalyzing tragedies and dilemmas are never out of mind, these nuanced poems maintain faith in the act of speaking as a pathway through despair and toward transformation....From "Perspective"And where does your desire for immortality fitin a cosmos predicated on loss?(Gain, too - but not for you.) Better to commit yourself to decay,try to find beauty in it. And if you can't,it may at least seem beautiful to another, far away.