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what holds her D Ellis Phelps (2019 Main Street Rag) ISBN # 978–1-59948-774-8

 

Phelps’s deeply philosophical poetry gives incantation of femininity through the sublime eclectic energies of life, of death, and in the realm between.  She asks, “who are these guides stretching the wind” as she unravels her journey of “salt” and of “sorrow”. She is ghostly-she is buried- and as a “silver strand slips between the void and its maiden” she refuses to see her gender or circumstance as a weakness. She calls out to her audience to realize that though “eons have slipped through this clutching” … “every morning is a drop of honey”. In reading what holds her, each will find new dauntingly pleasing content, as its depths are endless and its dimension beyond our earthly foundation. Each syllable brings meaning, is determined, and is meant to replant readers in the sacred ground of mother nature and the unmaterial existence. Read it slow, to savor, and to imagine the unseen, as she questions, “what if judgement comes & I have not witnessed the kiss of wings”. She is stone and the playful leaf that hovers above .

 

– Nicole Metts

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