Every Small Holiness, by Natalie Burgess

Poetry, chapbook, 24 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

Every Small Holiness is a collection about movement, memory, and the quiet sacredness of ordinary life. These poems wander through highways, rivers, and backyards, tracing how love, loss, and belonging live inside the simplest moments. The speaker moves through these landscapes with a tender restlessness, always balancing between staying and leaving, between what has been and what might still be waiting just ahead. The world here hums with detail—the smell of pine and gasoline, the shimmer of heat on asphalt, the weight of a hand in passing—and each image feels both fleeting and infinite.

Rather than searching for clean answers, these poems linger in the in-between. They hold space for wonder, for grief that hums quietly under the surface, for the ache of being human and in motion. Every Small Holiness reminds us that beauty is rarely loud or permanent. It shows how holiness can live in the smallest gestures: a shared laugh, a long drive, a night sky breaking open with light.

Natalie Burgess is a poet, film photographer, and nonprofit professional based in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Drawn to the same subjects across mediums, she explores friendship, love, and the quiet transformations of travel. Outside of writing, she enjoys crafting, community work, and the everyday art of paying attention.