Lucky Fish by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

                                               

Favorite poems & lines:

From The Secret of Soil: “…a step in the forest means you are carried on the back of a thousand bugs.”

From Corpse Flower: “He even gave it a name and when the farmer said the name out loud, the flower began to move—then completely devoured him.”

And from my favorite poem, The Light I collect, Nezhukumatathil writes this about her newborn son, “When I hold him in the sunshine, even his ears glow from behind like a church window shining a celebration within.”