A writer searches for hidden messages in her mother’s paintings.~ “Imaginatively transporting ” … “a literary trompe l’oeil” … Poetry Collection by Jackie Craven ~

A house menstruates, a cyborg sister removes her skin at night, and a father gifts his children with robotic roses ~ 21 fanciful poems by Jackie Craven

Winner of the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Award ~ Comical and strange, yet heartbreakingly familiar ~ A surrealistic collage of linked tales by Jackie Craven  

…But Cannot Find the Words. This poem makes NO sense. Or, does it? Here’s how jabberwocky language turned into poetry.

A goose struggles in the grip of a haggard old woman. Here’s how a terrifying painting grew into a poem.

Philosophical monkeys perch on a roof in this surrealistic scene. What are they trying to say?