Other Customs and Practices New Release “rise leisurely

“rise leisurely

“My life on film

I can seduce anyone tonight beneath fronds slicing like blades

In her chapbook The Purpose of Hands she ruminates upon such ontological questions

— Elizabeth Bradfeld

Other Customs and Practices New Release “rise leisurelyIn poems that are precise and keenly observed, Leah Falk's Other Customs and Practices helps us see afresh the strangeness of pregnancy and early motherhood. These poems carry both the intimacy of sharing a body during pregnancy (when you're growing, one poem reminds us, not just another heart but also "a second brain inside") and the shock, after birth, of discovering you've made a person who's now separate from you. They consider both "our unknown