Last Child to Come InsideThese are poignant, at times strangely quirky entries into a world filled with sharpness, the sense of imminent danger, and a sensual urge that seems to sweep all danger before it. the border between exterior and interior life is diffuse. One can find oneself in unexpected places. Two little girls in yellow dresses who are never seen again, Jesus and Elvis vacationing in Bermuda, a town after the fair has gone, women showering after a swim, Picasso becoming a red velvet dress: these are just a few of the images conjured in Michelle's first collection. There is also the expressed silence of what is not known, nor brought to light, a darkness that this poet loves and that has often been the reason why she is the last child to come inside. |
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ANGEL IS TEACHING ball banister bars beautiful BECAME MY RED beneath Bermuda bodies bone breast brussels sprouts CALLING THE LOONS cheeks cherry belly close corner cotton candy COUNTRYSIDE SO GREEN dark dining room dream eating edge Elvis were seen eyes face father flesh GIRL GUIDE BASKET grass GUIDE BASKET LUNCH hair hands Inside Michelle Desbarats intentionally left blank Jessica Jesus and Elvis Last Child laugh legs let go LIP MARKS CHRISTMAS LIVED AMONG BIRDS LOBSTER SUPPER PARTY look MARKS CHRISTMAS ORNAMENT moist MORNING GLORIES mother MOTHER'S DESK GORDON mouth nickels NIGHT FOR FALLING NIGHT PICASSO BECAME nipples peas PENGUINS pink Playboy magazines pull rain Red horses RED VELVET DRESS remember running says shadow sidewalk sister SLICED PEACHES smell SMOKING THE GIRL soft someone somewhere stomach stuffed animal taste tell thin things tiny touch TRAPEZE wait walk wind wings yells