Who's Going to Love the Dying Girl?

WHO’S GOING TO LOVE THE DYING GIRL? by Bree Rolfe is a revolutionary debut poetry collection touching on society, loss, illness, and learning to grasp with things that cannot be changed. Rolfe executes verse with precision and fierceness:Desert Tarotand this is where people come to forget their mothers we envy darknessnoble, devilishin its necessity leaves like tapdancers, skittered across stone slabslanded at the feetof strange cacti  we are blindpowerless in this blaze your grace failed when you needed to bury a memory in a shallow grave in West Texas we are burntlimitlessin our catharsis you delved too far reoriented yourself beneath too much skysaw everything it contained a cup held by a hand that reachedfrom heavens and stretched warnings in the offing we are not the salamander who can pass through fire unscathed but each cloud contained wingsand you intend to wear a crown of your haunted thoughts