Under My Skin

The poems in Under My Skin speak of mothering, marriage, sex, divorce, old city-streets, grocery lines, new mattresses, and backyard gardens. Through these interactions, the conflict-filled tension between a woman’s need to love others and tend her inner life is expressed. And while the relationships, people, and places within the poems are complex yet ordinary, the primary relationship explored within these poems is a woman’s relationship to her own persistent and unremitting longing. She must hear, acknowledge and answer this longing – not in order to silence or subdue it – but to learn to become at home within it.