Bodies of Water & Women
A girl grows up in a radioactive hometown. Her bloodline intertwines with rivers and streams that have been polluted with toxic waste. She's raised by a village of women who, like the water, remember everything. She learns resilience from generations of single mothers, waitresses, teachers, secretaries, nurses, artists, dancers, and witches. A woman faces grief, death, illness, joy, love, and interdependence like a poet lost in prayer, or a natural scientist, one who studies mushrooms, which "transform toxicity into tenderness." She writes her way through the mud and the muck. She imagines the freedom of breaking the cycle.
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Bodies of Water & Women
A girl grows up in a radioactive hometown. Her bloodline intertwines with rivers and streams that have been polluted with toxic waste. She's raised by a village of women who, like the water, remember everything. She learns resilience from generations of single mothers, waitresses, teachers, secretaries, nurses, artists, dancers, and witches. A woman faces grief, death, illness, joy, love, and interdependence like a poet lost in prayer, or a natural scientist, one who studies mushrooms, which "transform toxicity into tenderness." She writes her way through the mud and the muck. She imagines the freedom of breaking the cycle.
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Bodies of Water & Women

Bodies of Water & Women

by Kira Gresoski
Bodies of Water & Women

Bodies of Water & Women

by Kira Gresoski

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Overview

A girl grows up in a radioactive hometown. Her bloodline intertwines with rivers and streams that have been polluted with toxic waste. She's raised by a village of women who, like the water, remember everything. She learns resilience from generations of single mothers, waitresses, teachers, secretaries, nurses, artists, dancers, and witches. A woman faces grief, death, illness, joy, love, and interdependence like a poet lost in prayer, or a natural scientist, one who studies mushrooms, which "transform toxicity into tenderness." She writes her way through the mud and the muck. She imagines the freedom of breaking the cycle.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781098330439
Publisher: BookBaby
Publication date: 09/18/2020
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 112
File size: 418 KB

About the Author

Kira Gresoski is a poet and writer in St. Louis, Missouri.

You can find her work at www.kiragresoski.com

Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Swimming in Secret Lake 3

Flood Babies 5

Nightmare of Swimming in Ditches 7

My Hometown Is a Trash Fire 9

This Trash Fire Is My Hometown 10

Our Home Is On Fire 12

Family of Origin Stories 13

Mama Bear Is a Dancing 14

Bear Picture of Snow at Seven Years Old 15

Something in the Water 16

Choosing a Tombstone 18

Sisterhood in the Wild, Sisterhood as Biological Adaptation 20

Radio Girl Is Born 22

Chapter 2

The Path to Secret Lake 27

Radio Girl Studies the Mushroom 29

Cleaning as Therapy for Women Who Can't Afford It 30

Bedtime at Grandma Nightingale's 31

I Only Want to Play Outside 32

Witchcraft for Neurotic Women 33

Answering the St. Louis Question 34

The Scrubs 37

The Stars 38

The Magic of Make-Up for Melodramatic Teen Girls 39

Health & Wellness for Obsessive Women 40

The Boys Say You Can't Trust Something That Bleeds 41

The Only Girl in a Car Full of Boys 42

Mush of Water and Bread 45

The Waitress on Her Period 46

Portrait of a Dying Man With ajar of Pickles 48

The Blood Stitch 49

The Waitress Feeds a Cowboy 50

The Waitress Brings the Cowboy His Bill 51

In Love With a Lake 53

Portrait of Chris's Mom After the Flood 54

The Lake Has Secrets 56

A Storyteller Is Born 57

Radio Girl Listens to the Air Waves 59

Chapter 3

On a Pink Moon an April 63

If You're Afraid of the Water 64

Origin Stories of a Soul 65

Our Oath to the Earth 66

Teaching You the Moon 67

Radio Girl Glows 69

Little Dancer 70

Style &c Fashion for People Who Don't Leave the House 72

Aunt Sarahs Picture Is in Missouri Game & Fish 73

The Waitress Sucks It Up 75

Universe, Give Claire the Keys to the Garden 77

The Sirens of Rainbow Basin Creek 78

Radio Girl *Is* Like Other Girls 80

The Waitress Takes Feet Pics 82

There's No Marriage in Heaven, But There Is Love 84

Ten Inches 86

We Fell in Love at Shit Lake 88

Before I Let It Go 90

Radio Girl Leaves Town 91

Tie Water Is Not a Dead Girl 92

Radio Girl Doesn't Know It Yet 94

For the Old Woman I Dream of Being 95

Notes 98

Acknowledgements 99

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