Soulmate as a Verb Beverages and Lula herself may be

and Lula herself may be the key to bringing back balance between life and death

he is completely unaware that the play centers around a vacation the two took years earlier to an island off Sicily

Marion welcomes a new student and befriends fluffy alpacas

but only the raccoons that rifle through their garbage

and personal black-and-white photographs

Soulmate as a Verb Beverages and Lula herself may bePoems of tender knowledge, buoyant survival, and Black, trans embodiment. The simple yet fraught experience of embodiment lies at the thrumming heart of Kelsey L. Smoot's SOULMATE AS A VERB. Bodies make love possible, they enable tender connection and transmit electric joy, all while leaving one vulnerable to discord and abuse, heartbreak and grief. Like a body, Smoot's daring poetry metabolizes cruelty, seeking the tender knowledge and kinships that