Cleave

<p><span style=color: rgba(94 94 94 1)>In </span><strong style=color: inherit><em>Cleave</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(94 94 94 1)> (</span><em style=color: rgba(94 94 94 1)>vb</em><span style=color: rgba(94 94 94 1)>: 1. to adhere firmly & closely loyally & unwaveringly / 2. to divide by or as if by a cutting blow: split) Darla Himeles writes a path of transformation. In vivid attentive poems that explore early trauma various meanings & makings of home & the struggle to conceive </span><em style=color: rgba(94 94 94 1)>Cleave</em><span style=color: rgba(94 94 94 1)> offers songs of survival forgiveness familial & lesbian love & being alive & determined to live all the way to the unfathomable depths / I once called </span><em style=color: rgba(94 94 94 1)>abyss</em><span style=color: rgba(94 94 94 1)>.</span></p>