This Oil-Puddle World, by TC Pescatore

Poetry, chapbook, 20 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

Liminal spaces. Faded memories. Landscapes of power. Fragmented dreams. This collection of poems seeks to revisit old childhood spaces, whether they be real or imagined. An effort to reclaim the pieces that separate, float away and refuse to decay only to become mythological in our own minds, ever present, personal and resonant forever.

These poems attempt to reexamine the memories that cannot, but must be, trusted; reality intertwined with dream. Returning to the places and people lost to the crushing flow of time and growing up we can conjure an image, a nightmare, a myth, a fleeting thought or word grown gravid in space between past and present.

TC Pescatore, an itinerant punk & former hobo, has scratched out poems high in the mountains of the North Cascades, on California's rocky coast and under pink desert skies over the Rio Grande, he might have left a few behind to mark his trail. He has published collections of poetry including Lizzie Red Bird & a novella, The Boxcar Bop! (2018).