Glass Poetry Press
Precision · Vision · Inclusion
Kimberly Ann Priest (Parrot Flower) is the author of Slaughter the One Bird (Sundress 2021), Still Life (PANK 2020), and White Goat Black Sheep (FLP 2018). She is an associate poetry editor for the Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Embody reader for The Maine Review. You can find her poetry, prose, reviews, and blog posts at kimberlyannpriest.com.
In Parrot Flower, a man and woman, both survivors of childhood sexual assault, who turn to one another and a number of synthetic sources to cope with the trauma that haunts them. Drawing from letters written between Charles Darwin and Joseph Dalton Hooker, the compositions of John Cage, and the story of Brent Brent's — a serial rapist in Denver during the 90s — Parrot Flower, explores the process of survival in a series of untitled lyrics. Here, a couple reveals the artifice of avoiding against the authenticity of exploring dark emotions as they are named, dismissed, and reflected in the other.
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