my brother, the Marine the recruiters come weeks earlier than agreed— arrive in alloy, aluminum with authority…
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Tanya Tuzeo
Tanya Tuzeo is a mother to two children and two collections of unpublished poetry, “We Live in Paradise” and “Miserable People”. Presented here are three poems from the latter, a merciless observation of intergenerational trauma; a family wounded by mental illness in a post-war, post-truth society and yet continues to limp along, sustained by the vestiges of love and forged bonds.