Mayflies

What happens when we are “flies caught between glass and screen”? Or when we watch “the upended city spin” as youthful passions, restlessness, addictions and deep despair pound our body and brain? The need for love, for belonging, for redemption looms large. These brave, sensuous, cleverly crafted poems are controlled but what they hold within cannot be controlled. Immersed in a harsh reality seemingly without hope, Caverhill looks unflinchingly at darkness, at transience, at when life “suddenly splits into before and after.” This chapbook makes us walk the brink of the abyss, portrays struggle and survival, and the poet pushes us to the edge—we are always “on the verge of breaking open.”

–Zilka Joseph, Author of Sharp Blue Search of Flame, What Dread, and Lands I Live In