Poetry Readers Challenge discussion

Nickole Brown writes about the relationship of people and animals. As a volunteer at four animal sanctuaries, you can imagine where her sympathies lie. She begins with “A Prayer to Talk to Animals,” saying, “I want to open my mouth and sound a language that calls all language home.” She ends with a poem called “Mercy,” trying to train other species to speak that word so that humans might finally take notice. "The Scat of It" is the only ode to feces I've ever read. Her poems are at times fanciful or endearing, but more often gritty, exposing human inhumanity and our selfish destruction of our planet.

Thanks, Alarie. I quite like animal poems -- sounds interesting.

S. wrote: "Thanks, Alarie. I quite like animal poems -- sounds interesting."

Interesting for sure. I don't like to quote much from a chapbook, since I'd be giving away too much of the surprise.