Spilled Milk, by A.K. Shakour

Poetry, chapbook, 40 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

Spilled Milk is a collection of poetry which illuminates what a woman looks like, when she spills over.

Do you think heartbreak has an expiration date? Have you ever become undone by seeing your ex post on social media? What are you supposed to do with your feelings, after the love is poured down the drain?

Spilled Milk is a soft flashback to the past, exploring these questions without finding many answers. This collection reflects on healing from a breakup, starting a relationship with God, and witnessing the marriage of a younger sister. Deleted photographs, bits of Bible verses, and half-full glasses of hope are captured in these 27 poems.

A.K. Shakour has a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from The University of British Columbia. Her favorite color is yellow. She has poetry published in Orange Peel Mag, Nightingale & Sparrow, Room Magazine, yolk literary, and others. She lives outside of Philadelphia with a plethora of potted plants that desperately need to be watered.