In her thought-provoking, intimate collection, her form of healing, poet Micaela Snow is urged (in solitude) to introspect about life and her unbalanced place in it. To reach equilibrium again, she must address all parts that form her being through the senses. She finds herself on three journeys, each cascading into one another. By exploring the surface of life through ideas of whimsical freedom, purity, and self-realization-dismantling the perception of taste from the lenses of desired platonic and romantic relationships, and uncovering themes of race, family, self-hatred, and fear-she realizes her instability and lack of belonging run deeper than expected, and restoration comes at a price. Her walls are down, and she is stripped bare through vivid language. These poems, like dots, connect slowly to reveal an indisputable visual of reality. We must slowly but surely piece together the poet's life, uncovering both the exquisite and the distorted-that's how we begin to heal.
In her thought-provoking, intimate collection, her form of healing, poet Micaela Snow is urged (in solitude) to introspect about life and her unbalanced place in it. To reach equilibrium again, she must address all parts that form her being through the senses. She finds herself on three journeys, each cascading into one another. By exploring the surface of life through ideas of whimsical freedom, purity, and self-realization-dismantling the perception of taste from the lenses of desired platonic and romantic relationships, and uncovering themes of race, family, self-hatred, and fear-she realizes her instability and lack of belonging run deeper than expected, and restoration comes at a price. Her walls are down, and she is stripped bare through vivid language. These poems, like dots, connect slowly to reveal an indisputable visual of reality. We must slowly but surely piece together the poet's life, uncovering both the exquisite and the distorted-that's how we begin to heal.