Janice

I hope that y’all are doing well.

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A Mouthful of Cotton Revised

Reckless Medicine explores the ways we find ourselves voiceless and the struggle we face in reclaiming speech and the power, identity and community that come with it.

Focused on the intersection of marginalized groups, learned silence and revolution in words, this chapbook illustrates how speech and rebellion carve out a place for each of us where society will not.

Is this what sacrilege looks like?

My body hung carcass too,

Shining in an indigo sky like yet another moon, 

Orbiting a dying planet

That has expelled flesh without pause?

But no, love, they've hung us out to dry here

And the sun, it scorches, melts skin to scales

So they'll only call us beast louder

As if they had no part in our becoming so