Chatterbox

Chatterbox is a collection of one hundred and ten poems.Tiny tellings written during a year of marriage disintegration. The poems explore a world of bewildering emotions ranging from sadness and terror to anger and enlightenment. The reader enters a world conjured from fairytales and dolls, the Garden of Eden, and the Wizard of Oz; the pages abound with moths and mice, dogs and horses, roosters and crows, oranges and apples, the moon and the sun. Discover a lyrical new voice in...
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Chatterbox is a collection of one hundred and ten poems.Tiny tellings written during a year of marriage disintegration. The poems explore a world of bewildering emotions ranging from sadness and terror to anger and enlightenment. The reader enters a world conjured from fairytales and dolls, the Garden of Eden, and the Wizard of Oz; the pages abound with moths and mice, dogs and horses, roosters and crows, oranges and apples, the moon and the sun. Discover a lyrical new voice in poetry.WordsI'm haunted by words I said yesterday. They won't let me go. Promises, vows, intentions-blowing the curtains on a windless night. But they're just the soul of a dead decision.I'm afraid nothing is so simple. To fall in love is dead easy but not simple. The ghost is numbing, dumbing, humming.And I board up the old house. The weeds will grow and the ghost will stay. But I will go because my heart has learned new words it is dying to say.* * *A creative force, exploding after decades of silence, inspires the Chatterbox poems. The poet struggles to attend to a Muse that wakes her each morning, urging her to capture a spirit igniting inside her. The poet observes her own life as it falls apart and fragments then miraculously turns her outward toward others.Whose heart hasn't cracked open and broken? Do any of us withstand the pain and transcend to the other side? Can we leave betrayal and abandonment behind without bitterness and resentment? Can we move on and find our true soaring spirits? Chatterbox answers these questions with a resounding, yes.Sandy Day studied under great Canadian poets, bp nichol and Michael Ondaatje. Her influences include Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Pat Lowther.

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