Bloom in Reverse.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (103 pages)
- Pitt Poetry Series .
- Pitt Poetry Series .
Intro -- Contents -- I. No -- Confession -- The Fifth Vital Sign -- Suicide Is a Mind Stripping Petals off Flowers -- "Eating Is an Act of Optimism" -- She Said: It's Not That Things Bring Us to Tears, but Rather, There Are Tears in Things -- Memory Is a Kind of Broken Promise -- Bronze -- Poem for a Troubled Room -- Fly Haiku -- Virginia Farm Haunting -- Metempsychosis -- I Have Drinks with My Dead Friend's Ex-Boyfriend -- After Twelve Months, Someone Tells Me It's Time to Join the Living -- II. Wolves in Shells -- Into the Salvage Yard -- Home Is a Four-Letter Word -- Golden Ratio -- Mausoleum of the Unfixable -- Split Screen -- Constant -- Your Rose Bush -- Last Call Sestina -- Transemotional -- Daylilies -- III. Hidden Wings -- Miniature -- Chaos Theory -- My Friend Asks What I've Been Doing Lately, and by This She Means Men -- Poem Ending with Six Words from a Women's Room Stall -- Mechanical Reproduction -- Online Dating -- Earth, Hair, Fire, Water -- New York City -- The Heart Has the Capacity to Break and Reset a Million Times -- IV. Passenger -- Elegy, Two Years Later -- The Exactness of Birds -- Ex as CSI Episode -- Nine Man -- And Then You -- The Last Good Man -- Hooke's Law -- Force -- Love as the Circle-to-Land Approach -- Horseshoe Crabs -- Advice for a Dying Fern -- Acknowledgments.
Bloom in Reverse moves from death to life as it chronicles the aftermath of a friend's suicide and the end of a turbulent relationship, working through devastation and loss while on a search for solace that spans from local bars to online dating and beyond to ultimately find true connection and sustaining love.