Femme
Julia Polyck-O’Neill
Buy at above/ground press, $4
October 2016
Reviewed by Nikki Sheppy in ARC Poetry Magazine #83
Produced, in part, for distribution as part of the Festival of Readers and The Concept of Vancouver conference in St. Catharines, Ontario, October 13-15, 2016.
Undervalue/Dark (after Sylvia Plath, “ELM: For Ruth Fainlight”)
I know the bottom . . .
It is what you fear.
I do not fear it: I have been there.
put your money where your mouth is
put your mouth where your money is
your money is.
your mouth is.
(I am terrified by this dark thing/
That sleeps in me)
& at this point I think life writing is the better solution.