Unless I Came Back to Tell You

by Michael Milligan

The beating of wings, fragments memory leaves--each word, each phrase draws us toward the sun: "I fly too high, / the sky there uncluttered by restraint.// I am torched/ I am metal I melt. I am molten. Unless I Came Back to Tell You soars, plummets, burns images into skin, remakes space into breath, turns a colon into a challenge, a cottonmouth into a river. Self is "a cave, a white cloud, an open mouth." We "Start with a word watch...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1639800719
• ISBN13: 9781639800711
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Kelsay Books
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"