Book Review: In the Shadow of Rainbows by Selma Martin

In anticipation of Selma Martin’s debut poetry collection, In the Shadow of Rainbows, I am delighted to share an advanced review of this beautiful and moving poetry collection.

Each word reaches down into the reader and lays the foundation for something greater, something deeply personal, something that begins to heal. And as much as this book takes us into the shadows, it also takes us out into the light again and reminds us to step out into the sunshine again.

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Little Mermaid

I did not ask you to pull me from the water. You wrested me to coastline where sand cut my flesh and the sunrise made my blood scream . . .

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Eye of Demeter

Last night the moon rose electric in the sky. Fingernail sliver of warm yellow streetlight almost swallowed by midnight earth . . .

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Sleeping Beauty

It chimed at midnight and so awoke me from a slumber permeated with dreams that spread like an ink blot on paper. I watched then the moon creep across the floor until it alighted on silken bedspread . . .

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Mesquite Ink

Last night the moon rose in an inky sky and I watched the stars blink into being one by one over the expanse of a glittering city . . .

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Daffodil

These silken skirts brush gently across the earth, bare ground pregnant with moisture, moisture gravid with the breathless sounds of spring . . .

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Embroidery Woman

And the sky turns purple bruised by the sun and the woman raises her face graven with wind and the moon rises silken in the night . . . .

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