Testament

Testament bears witness to traumas-cultural, personal, and spiritual-as well as moments of revelatory transport. While the catalyzing tragedies and dilemmas are never out of mind, these nuanced poems maintain faith in the act of speaking as a pathway through despair and toward transformation. ... From "Perspective" And where does your desire for immortality fit in a cosmos predicated on loss? (Gain, too-but not for you.) Better to commit yourself to decay, try to find beauty in it. And if you can't, it may at least seem beautiful to another, far away.