when animals are animals – Betsy Johnson
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 58 pages
2021, ISBN: 978-1-952781-02-5 $17.95 + S&H
Wrong ticks on, and it feeds on silence. In her book, "when animals are animals", Betsy Johnson refuses to be “the quietest person in the world.” She names where the teeth are, gets closer to the kick she knows is coming, and makes her weary spirit take up the empty rucksack, because there is work to be done. That is the work of standing up to the “cloud monster,” of being an antidote, of finding hope in a knot of stones.…