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Will is already compromised

you're actually in the perfect position for God to lead you to greater heights

violently stealing the essence of endangered magical creatures

In the Country of Hard Life and Rosebuds History_Gift_Guide taking snapshots and posting themUsing family myth as navigation, the poems within In The Country of Hard Life and Rosebuds rotate between lyric pastorals and narrative forms. The speaker attempts to trace her identity along a timeline and family who remain geographically separate. In doing so, the poems echo toward the past for answers that stand indefinable in the present. The collection weaves a story of family, love, and the inevitability of the kind of loss experienced by