Sometimes you read a book where the suffering is so great that your heart contracts and tears well in your eyes and your mind fills with guilt and empathy and that was exactly what happened while I was reading this collection. The author did an amazing job at portraying loss and pain and fleeing home even when you don't want, even when you're leaving behind everyone and everything you know and love. It was heart shattering.
Poetry has been letting me down recently and it's been bumming me out, but this was my light in the dark. I am immensely glad that I requested it. My mind is still spinning.