Fever ghazal -- Ephemera -- Mold -- Swimming lesson -- Fearfully made -- Nebulizer -- Gas station entomology -- Mise en place -- Ode to undercooked chicken -- Fibrosis -- Wasp nest -- Pas de deux -- Hess Road oak -- Morning feeding -- Maintenant -- Leah, late March -- Blue Morpho -- Aubade -- Odysseus -- Commonwealth -- Ode for Hayes -- Pollen Season -- Notes and acknowledgements
Summary
In Ephemera, winged creatures elegize and celebrate the beauty of evanescence simultaneously. The poems speak to the ambivalence of coming of age beset by the daily trials of chronic illness as viewed through the lens of femininity and love in the confessional tradition
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