Remedies For Chiron

By m.patchwork monoceros

In the astrological tradition, Chiron represents our deepest wound, and our lifelong efforts to heal it. Remedies for Chiron is a collection of poems that journey through the days of a young, queer, Black, and newly disabled poet trying to find a place to root and exist in the entirety of those intersections. Moving between cycles of grief and self-discovery, Remedies tells the story of a prismatic existence while also offering a balm for the hurts we all experience and the humility that comes with healing

• Language: English
• Publisher: Radiant Press
• Release date: Apr 15, 2023
• ISBN: 9781989274897

m.patchwork monoceros

m. patchwork monoceros is a poet and interdisciplinary artist exploring polysensory production and somatic grief through text/ile and film. Their work considers a collective qrip (queer+crip) consciousness by connecting to marvelous bodies living with complexity as sick or disabled. A Black creator of Jamaican Taino/Arawak ancestry, monoceros lives with their four-legged menagerie: Onion, Dax, Hoa and Essun in Treaty 1 also known as Winnipeg, MB, traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Dene, Cree, Dakota and Oji-Cree Nations and home of the Métis First Nation.

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Editor: Suzette Mayr

Cover art: m. patchwork monoceros

Book and cover design: Tania Wolk, Third Wolf Studio

Printed and bound in Canada at Friesens, Altona, MB

The publisher gratefully acknowledges the support of Creative Saskatchewan,

the Canada Council for the Arts and SK Arts.

Funders' Logos: Creative Saskatchewan, Canada Council, SK Arts

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: Remedies for Chiron / M. Patchwork Monoceros.

Names: Monoceros, M. Patchwork, author.

Description: Poems.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20230196020 |

Canadiana (ebook) 20230196063 |

ISBN 9781989274880 (softcover) | ISBN 9781989274903 (EPUB)

Classification: LCC PS8626.O5555 R46 2023 | DDC C811/.6—dc23

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Chiron glyph

Chiron,

an asteroid orbiting in between Saturn and Uranus

is classified in myth and astrology as The Wounded Healer.

Their astrological glyph is an inverted key;

suggesting that within our deepest wounds

lies the key to our deepest strength.

Chiron shows us that our individual wounds

can find refuge and rest

through the salves of collective healing.

– Charm Torres, astrologer

Content Note

The following poems contain references to or descriptions of:

racism, ableism, self-harm, sex/sexual violence,

police violence, childhood and medical trauma,

death/dying, substance/alcohol use, and mental illness.

Please read gently and take the care you need.

I

INJURY. ILLNESS. IMPACT.

the m word

Puzzle Pieces

untitled fascia

Twilight Tattoos

Trauma

Say Cheese

An Education

Seeking Afrotopia

Smoke, no fire

Looking Up With Feet on Ground

II

WOUND. WEAKNESS. WORRY.

all mine

C r o s s i n g L i b e r t y

Routine

Construction

Holy Oak

Variations on a Brother

Refill

dial tone

Woman, Arrested.

What Home Isn’t

III

BLOODLETTING.

pigeon

Vacancies

570 Jameson

Baby Girl, Gayle. 1982

Portrait

Lottery Numbers

Mad Black

Roaches in Daylight

miscellaneous gadgetry

Hives

Bloodflame

IV

SCAB. PICK. SCAB.

I Fell Asleep in My Party Dress

Sad Clown Saxophone

cheshire cat moon

How to Fold a Fitted Sheet and Other Things I Never Learned From My Mother

Down The House

My Grandmother Keeps Losing Her Teeth

mango threads in my teeth

I Would Come Out Tonight...

V

SCAR. HEAL. GROW.

Qrip Love

nice to meet you

Vinyl Spine

Rise

Deli Counter

Sing Song

with <3

2050

…at rest…

To: mel Fr: your indestructible self

Acknowledgements

I

INJURY. ILLNESS. IMPACT.

3-5 drops of silence

broken into truth

take as needed.

the m word

Sometimes just writing or reading the word

mother

A throbbing between