Lone Yellow Flower

<p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(49 49 49 1)>Lone Yellow Flower</em><span style=color: rgba(49 49 49 1)> simmers with a quiet and often lonely fury that eventually turns into energy and knowledge. These poems circulate the body through the veins of nonconformity emphasizing what love can look like when laid bare. Rather than define itself this collection resists categorization offering us a new way to consider allowing access to one's inner truth. Does anyone deserve the luxury of our honest selves? Do we owe our pain to the world? Gill masterfully attends to these questions and more by telling it plain: we've gestated nothing but rage. Here I believe is where Gill wants us to start.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(49 49 49 1)>-Monica Prince author of </span><em style=color: rgba(49 49 49 1)>Roadmap: A Choreopoem</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(49 49 49 1)>Rendered in pigeon wing and trachea worm and teeth incense and exhaust Erika Gill's </span><em style=color: rgba(49 49 49 1)>Lone Yellow Flower</em><span style=color: rgba(49 49 49 1)> manifests the world-ragged raw and beautiful-as scrying pools to peer into interiority to see love and rage and sorrow riot writhe and swirl. This is a book for anyone who has stood before the opened earth and let the scent of loam take them elsewhere for anyone who has cut their palm and saw there an unspoken language. a millstone at my neck / toss me in the mossy pond / my craft would make me float</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(49 49 49 1)>-Todd Dillard author of </span><em style=color: rgba(49 49 49 1)>Ways We Vanish</em><span style=color: rgba(49 49 49 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(49 49 49 1)>Ragnarök at the Father-Daughter Dance</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p>