Old Girls and Palm Trees

<p><em>Old Girls and Palm Trees</em> by Meg Pokrass is an illustrated collection about iconoclasts perpetual dreamers tightrope walkers living room magicians cat lovers and female friendship. The old girls in these linked hybrid pieces are women of a certain age who in an alternate reality refuse to accept the stereotypes of aging. The collection illustrated by Cooper Renner is conjured from dreamscapes of what just may be true. The poems prose poems and micros in this collection invite us into an alternate reality where joy and love for same sex friends become a magical force to be reckoned with. </p>