Strange Nests

the secret about dying arrived scrawny. it's growing stronger & fatter though & whispers go mad.<p>Beyond ancient gates among thorny overgrowth and carnivorous blooms a raven called Death waits tirelessly for its chance to roost within us. Using scraps of love remorse anger and pain it weaves. With erasure memory and discovery it binds. And from the garden of wounds that grows within our broken hearts it builds Strange Nests.</p><p>In the follow-up to her Bram Stoker and Elgin Award nominated collection <em>A Complex Accident of Life</em> Jessica McHugh uses poetry design and illustration to unearth the horrific consumptive and transformative nature of grief from the pages of the Frances Hodgson Burnett classic <em>The Secret Garden</em>.</p>