Like a Body in the Forest
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2020-01-09
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MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa
Abstract
Like a Body in the Forest follows the speaker through what they think is the fall of their life.
With feelings and emotions that change like the leaves, it is a collection of poetry about death,
and also about love: two things so woven into our everyday lives we forget that they are
roommates. Comprised of 45 poems, the collection moves you from dangerous behaviors and
suicidal tendencies to thinking that maybe the world just wants you dead. It shadows the speaker
as they remember long lost loves and the love they finally caught only to let it go. It addresses
the strain depression and anxiety take on our life and choices we make that influence our own
fate. Interlaced between the words is magic. The magic we wish existed in our world. The
manuscript hangs in the ether, waiting to be cut down and grieved before winter comes and
buries it in snow.
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Poetry, Death, Love