Immersing into the chilly 52°F water, a finger-drawn heart on a steam-beaded shower stall becomes a portal to oceanic wonder. This long-form poem is a "palimpsest" of moments-avoiding crab pincers, chasing moonlight over sand flats, and tracing the pulse of marine life, from razor clams to ancient horseshoe crabs. It's a Zenlike immersion in breath, memory, grief, and gratitude, marked by strokes and briny whispers: "kick kick...my reflections silver plankton." With crystalline language and elemental imagery, this is not just a swim-it's a lifelong dive into mortality, love, and the sea's salty, spirit-shaping embrace.
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Height: 203 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
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979-8-9898147-4-9 (9798989814749)
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Christine Jones grew up in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York. Like many young women during those times, she failed to prepare a plan for her life. It was this failure that led to her being a single mother living on welfare. Had it not been for the fact that she wanted a better life, she might have allowed herself to believe her situation could not get better. She would have taken that lethal step into what she terms as being the 'Ghetto's Poison' - a poison that allows one to foolishly believe the hype that says, "Where and how you live will define where you will go in life." Instead, she strived forward, while helplessly watching many of her friends as they took that frightful plunge into the Ghetto's Poison. As she watched, a fire burned deep into her soul. It was that fire that prompted her to write novels, Ghetto's Poison and My Sister's Place.
