The Bones of This Land

By Kat Heatherington

The Bones of This Land is a tautly-written and deeply felt poetic journey through loss, grief, and the complex integration of both. It is the story of the relationship between daughter and father, through Kat Heatherington's childhood recollections re-exper

• Language: English
• Publisher: Echobird Press LLC
• Release date: Nov 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9798986386539

Kat Heatherington

Kat Heatherington is a queer ecofeminist poet, artist, pagan, and organic gardener. Kat's work tackles what one friend memorably described as "stunning transitional moments" - the space between feelings - grief, love, heartbreak, and emotional complexity, threaded through a deep relationship with the natural world. She has several self-published poetry chapbooks, and one book, The Bones of This Land, available from the author at [e-mail] and at http://echobirdpress.com. Her work can be read at https://patreon.com/yarrowkat.

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the bones

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this land

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Copyright © 2017 Kat Heatherington

Second Edition published by Echobird Press, 2022

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Cover Art Copyright © 2017 Gwendolyn Prior ISBN-13: 979-8-9863865-2-2 (Echobird Press)

the bones

of

this land

poems by

kat heatherington

for Frank W Heatherington

1941-2015

what is remembered, lives.

CONTENTS

I

everyone’s father dies of something

bending to the shape of water ................................. 1

this aching echo ...................................................... 2

remember ................................................................ 4

reading together ...................................................... 6

unless you mean to fire ........................................... 7

dying of something ................................................. 9

taking flight ........................................................... 10

the last night .......................................................... 11

like the light........................................................... 12

since you died ........................................................ 13

fragments on my father’s death ............................ 14

a place my father loved, but never lived ................ 15

reading maps ......................................................... 16

the bones of this land ............................................ 17

perseids.................................................................. 22

II

desert solitaire

every time i fall ...................................................... 27

time is distance and distance is distance .............. 28

an edge made for embracing ................................. 30

desert solitaire