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paper \u2022 88 pages \u2022 15.95
\nISBN: 978-1-945588-24-2<\/p>\n

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Birches <\/em><\/h1>\n

Carl Adamshick<\/h2>\n

Brutal and tender, Adamshick\u2019s spare poems recount a son\u2019s unsentimental and powerful love for his mother, while contemplating, in the wake of her death, what it is to be truly alive.<\/em><\/p>\n

An excerpt from “ARMISTICE” in Birches<\/em><\/p>\n

…My mother\u2019s bed was in the center
\nof the living room. Her morphine,
\na viscous blue liquid I dropped
\non her tongue. In the evenings,
\nBillie Holiday eased herself
\nout of the speakers and then sat
\nher voice down quietly
\nin the lamplight. I wanted
\nthe nurses, regardless
\nof gender or age, to hold me
\nin the dark, to lie with me
\non a bed of forgetfulness.
\nMany of them said:
\nIt\u2019s okay. She did it for you,<\/em>
\nnow you can return the favor.<\/em>
\nIt\u2019s the same.<\/em> But one nurse said:
\nIt is not the same.<\/em><\/p>\n

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