31 Poems for an Orphic October

She called me a baby;But the baby is hers.Wrapped in tinfoil,Placed in a microwave,Little hand tapping on the glass,And right before it explodes,She cries,“I didn’t mean it!”The collaboration of two Orange County grown poets, 31 Poems for an Orphic October explores the disturbing themes and elements inherent in revenge, rejection, isolation, promiscuity, deceit, murder and even the Devil himself. An unsettling journey in and out of life’s darker moments, this collection challenges and assaults the reader in ways that no other poetry collection ever could. Featuring artwork by poet Brendan Shusterman, 31 Poems for an Orphic October hopes to burn a new path forward just as it harvests what was left of the old one behind—looking back to see the Eurydice in all of us. Prepare yourself for a darkened theatre of two minds rolled into a third, and then further personified into thirty-one gothic, autumnal, auric, and lyrical days—the poems of an Orphic October.