The House of Broken Things by Kim Moore Alex Josephy This is intimate

This is intimate

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The House of Broken Things by Kim Moore Alex Josephy This is intimateShe's sleeping like a fairy tale girl, before the story teaches girls like her a lesson. In The House of Broken Things, motherhood is a spell, a terrible power, an intelligence, and transformative in all its complexity and ambivalence. These poems move like myth, invoking the ghosts of The House of Broken Things, where 'Broken mothers and damaged fathers slept the sleep of those who do not have time to think, and fractured children dreamt the things