Girls and Buoyant

<p>Emily Crocker complicates home and family in her debut poetry collection <strong><em>Girls and Buoyant</em></strong>. With sensitivity and wry observation Crocker explores old suburbs and new losses at the intersection of late capitalism and queer love. </p><p><br></p><p><em>Pinky-promise me you won't die tonight.</em></p><p>You shook my little finger back.</p><p>I put the car keys on the bedside anyway</p><p>and held your cells rocking themselves apart</p><p>together until the pharmacy reopened.</p><p><br></p>