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    The Skull Tree
    The Skull Tree
    The Skull Tree
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    The Skull Tree

    By Kristen Grace

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    Centuries ago, terrified villagers spread rumors of a monster living in the woods. Once a year, they offer up a young woman to appease the mysterious creature. But what if the villagers are inadvertently creating the very thing they fear the most?In The Skull Tree, poet Kristen Grace creates a new work of mythology and a welcome for anyone made to feel monstrous for becoming what they had to in order to survive.

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisherliteratipressok
    Release dateSep 20, 2024
    ISBN9798227663375
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      The Skull Tree - Kristen Grace

      The Skull Tree

      Kristen Grace

      LiteratiPressLogoCleaned-2.pngImage 1

      Literati Press in collaboration with The Leaves Poetry Press

      Copyright © 2024 Kristen Grace

      ISBN  978-1-943988-40-2

      Published by Literati Press in collaboration with

      The Leaves Poetry Press theleavespoetrypress.com

      For more information, visit literatipressok.com, @literatipress on social media, or our bookshop at 3022 Paseo, Oklahoma City, OK 73103

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form

      or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without prior permission of the author.

      Cover Artwork by Natasha Alterici Layout and Design by David Woods

      I dedicate this book to the community, with love.

      Since childhood I’ve been faithful to monsters. I’ve been saved and absolved by them because monsters are the patron saints of our blissful imperfections.

      – Guillermo del Toro

      Contents

      The Beldam

      Watch Me Solve for X

      The Great Misunderstander

      Family Tree

      Sister Flame

      Mantra for a Plague Year

      1,002 Nights: The Storyteller

      Apologetica for Poets

      Triple Goddess on the Porch

      Wrong Offerings

      Walk Like Her

      Desert Fox, Marfa Texas

      By Broomstick & Moon

      Tender, Tender

      Storm Watching, Tulum

      Welcome Stranger

      Where Is

      Secret Grave

      Led Through, Waved In

      Moonlight Lament of Frogs

      The Skull Tree

      The Skull Tree

      Confession of the Village Midwife

      The Day After the Tree

      Silencer

      The Question

      Shinrin Yoku

      Red-Bellied

      Concussion at Full Moon

      Raised Right

      Book Witch

      Almost Phoenix

      38..Last Girl Standing

      40..Elegy for Frankenstein

      Hearth

      The Moon Lives Here

      The Naming

      A Little Night

      (un)protected

      Make Them Weep

      Grace, After a Party

      Love Letter to Songbirds Trapped in Walmart’s Ceiling

      Redbuds

      Small Communion

      Fight or Flight

      The Halls of Snow and Sleep

      Grief’s Staircase

      Weird Women

      ––––––––

      Acknowledgments

      About the Author

      The Beldam

      I’m not sorry I ate the apple—

      I’m only sorry I shared it with him.

      Alone I would have made the desert bloom.

      Alone I would have scream-sang a baby into being.

      When

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