Limes and Compromise by Erika Saunders

Part botanist, part meteorologist, part zoologist, Erika Saunders offers visions of domestic life through an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of turtles, poppies, mangoes, cypress, and hippopotamus. We follow the arc of desire from “fields swathed / in burnt sunshine” to a more mature love where “dreams drift / around us like new-/born dogwood /blossoms, shaken / loose.” Saunders hooks her pinky finger in the surreal and spins her imagination, landing with “arms at a crossroad of bones.” You’ll savor the sensuous play in Limes and Compromise. Read it now.
–Christine Stewart-Nuñez, Author of Untrussed and Bluewords Greening