Nasty. Unpredictable. Nonsense.
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Mouse in the House Little baby mouse balled up and lying on the hardwood floor, like a package marked “fragile” Remember, you are mighty. Take your two front teeth and chew through the walls. Turn yourself loose into a world where you can burrow in warm dirt and flower beds. Staying inside, hiding in fear, will end with your neck snapped under a trap. Find a home without boundaries and let the sunlight glimmer on your whiskers.
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Nasty. Unpredictable. Nonsense. is a collection chock full of surrealist, image heavy poems and flash fictions. The confessional material explores parts of humanity which are deemed too taboo or inappropriate to discuss in a “polite” society. The collection explores themes of queerness, gender, identity, theology and religion, disillusionment, pervasive cycles of drug abuse, and coming of age in a technological era, and additionally, blends a variety of genres, such as horror, sci-fi, fables, and magical realism, to reject the notion that darkness and happiness are contrasting realities which cannot live harmoniously together. The collection promotes self-analysis and encourages readers to reflect on areas of shame, hurt, and trauma to find steady footing to move forward from pains of the past. The collection is divided into three parts: Nasty focuses on fear, mourning, and harsh, hard to confront realities. Unpredictable highlights love, introspection, inspiration, and critiques a society that demonizes exploration. Nonsense promotes recovery, stillness, acceptance, and asserts that finding community leads to solidarity and serenity.
About the Author
Sajah Francesca emphasizes queerness and surrealist optimism, exploring artistic expression by manipulating structure and blending high and low forms. They induce their language with darkness and whimsy, mirroring conflicting realities of the world, creating space for reflection, and promoting the exploration of serenity through the analysis of the soul.