Sugar Work | 
pickSomething about these poems reminds me of the Jackson Browne album “Running On Empty,” not in the details but in the sense of an artist older and younger than their years running both toward and away from themself. Here, what I feel most is the speaker of the poems locating herself as an adult in relation to parents who couldn‘t be what she needed, and in relation to the child she no longer is. The line “I forgive me” rings through for me.
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