Soak

By Kerri Cull

This collection focuses on physical experience and contemplates the beauty of everyday life – the objects, the stories, and the people that drift in and out. It finds the extraordinary in the ordinary.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Breakwater Books Ltd
• Release date: Jan 31, 2012
• ISBN: 9781550813890

Kerri Cull

Kerri Cull is the author of Soak (2012) and Rock Paper Sex: The Oldest Profession in Canada’s Oldest City (2017). She has a Master of Arts in English literature and a Bachelor of Education in post-secondary education, and is currently working on a diploma in police studies. She lives and works in St. John’s.

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KERRI CULL

soak

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Copyright © 2012 Kerri Cull

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Breakwater Books is committed to choosing papers and materials for our books that help to protect our environment. To this end, this book is printed on a recycled paper that is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council®.

FOR MY PARENTS, MARGARET AND CARL CULL

Contents

stretch

NIGHT GAMES

I SPY

SECOND - HAND

SUPERHEROES

A TURNIP

NOVA

GOLDFISH

CANDY

PUSHED OVER

FIGHT CLUB

SWEET

MAKE - UP

PLAYING

BREAKING BREAD

WHAT I REALLY WANTED TO BE WAS A CAT

run

BEDLAM

HOLES IN YOUR JEANS

BRUISED

TOES LIKE GRAPES

THE FAT CAT

WHO OWNS THE ABANDONED SHOES

TURTLE

ZIPLINE

ISLAND

OVERLOOKING THEIR KITCHEN

ISOLATION

WISH

SPICE

OPENING

APARTMENT

READING

AFTER THAT ARGUMENT

LAVA

bend

MARK

CEMETERY

PASSING

SWELL

UNDERNEATH

FRAGMENT

MILES

LINGERING

HOUSES

SKATING

SCHIZOPHRENIA

UPSTREAM

FEDORA

WAITING