Grief Flowers Quitab Editions she really means it and

she really means it and when Bach speaks back

yet tender

and laces our veins with visions of what we

listening to what speaks ‘into the silence between sounds

Alison Stone

Grief Flowers Quitab Editions she really means it andMegan Merchants Grief Flowers exposes with unsettling accuracy what loss would look like if we could subject it to an x ray or place it under a microscope; its irregular divisions, its unforeseen growth, its pain emanating from ever shifting and unpredictable locations. These poems are most alive and present in their absence, in the spaces Merchant skillfully creates between what we are grateful for, what we will never have, and what we have lost.