Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers gardening The poems build in urgency

The poems build in urgency

the cousins need to find and return the missing bundle before the assembly comes to an end

Wrapped in the love of her community

But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgil's nephew

elders of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe transmit a storehouse of experience and memories

Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers gardening The poems build in urgencySelected by Kathy Fagan as a winner of the 2018 National Poetry Series, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers is a debut collection of poems by a dazzling geologist of queer eros. Drunktown, New Mexico, is a place where men "only touch when they fuck in a backseat." Its landscape is scarred by violence: done to it, done on it, done for it. Under the cover of deepest night, sleeping men are run over by trucks. Navajo bodies are deserted in