Second edition released!

These are the Rooms to My Mother’s House tells the story of one woman’s journey from a white-trash childhood with a drug addicted mother to becoming a mother herself, plagued by the self-doubt and self-destructive behavior. Some rooms are bedtime stories like “Storage”:

“When we were the children, the rooms were like gardens, and the weeding we did was done to belongings.”

Some rooms have humorous anecdotes on head lice and “Acne in the Strangest Places.” Others are scathing and even x-rated:

“I laid there in a biodegradable blanket and swore to eat and drink of sex no more. I strung my sweat like beads. Out stepped a child and umbilical cord.”

Rooms reveals the author’s bittersweet swim towards normalcy and self-confidence, all the while resonating in the style of shock poets, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.

“The medics have plucked my insides of disease. Two–three times cancer hang, the stars of my show. My tumors in Coke bottles. 
My ovaries in a Vasoline jar. ”

Nursery rhyme themes play throughout with a sickening sing-song urgency in poems like “Sorcerer’s Apprentice” and “Cinderella’s Bunions.” Some poems ring of Galway Kinnel’s, Book of Nightmares with themes of parenthood, drug abuse, loneliness, and reproduction.

The poems of These are the Rooms to my Mother’s House have appeared in:

• Abbey #87
• Adobe Abalone
• Allegheny Review
• Alternative Press Magazine
• Amherst Review
• Angelfish Press
• Arnazella
• Artisan’s Almanac
• Bay Area Poets Coalition
• Black Spring Press
• Blind Man’s Rainbow
• Blood and Fire Review
• Brown Bottle
• Caveat Lector
• Cedar Hill Review
• Cold Mountain Review
• Confection
• Cover Magazine
• Creative Juices
• Curriculum Vitae
• Eidos
• Feh!
• First and Hope
• Florida Review
• Intrepid
• Luna Negra
• Nada Press
• Big Scream
• National Poetry Forum
• Onionhead, Opus
• Oregon East (3)
• Outside Lining Death Batch
• Poetalk
• Poetry Forum Journal
• Poetry Motel
• Prairie Dog
• Purple Monkey
• Running Deer Press
• Slightly West
• Sierra Nevada College Anthology
• South Ash Press
• Suburban Wilderness Press
• Ten and Six
• Twisted Nipples
• Verve
• Volume Number 22
• Yesterday’s Magazette
• Maple Leaf Rag V