April Michelle Bratten

Becoming Modern, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, On the Road, Waiting for the Barbarians, Women, How the Dead Live, Runaway, The Death of a Poet, The Handmaid's Tale, The Awakening, The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, The Giver, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Valley of the Dolls, Come to Me, Sentimental Education, To the Other Side and Back, Love Medicine, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Transformations, Pretty-Shield, Winter in the Blood, August, The Canning Season, The Bell Jar, The Mozart Season, The Jellyfish Season.



I have fallen a long way. Clouds are flowering
blue and mystical over the face of the stars.
Inside the church, the saints will be all blue,
floating on their delicate feet over the cold pews,
their hands and faces stiff with holiness.
The moon sees nothing of this. She is bald and wild.
And the message of the yew tree is blackness--blackness and silence.

~Sylvia Plath