Moon Child, by McKenna Matus

Poetry, chapbook, 28 pages, illustrated, from Bottlecap Features.

Sometimes home manifests as something you can touch. Bricks  to foundations to shutters to peppermint candles and Christmas trees. Sometimes home only frolics in the consistent and ever changing song loop of your mind and ruminating longing. Moon Child, a collection of reveries made up of bows, bones, and ramblings, seeks to unlock the truest rendition of home…

      What comes beneath the Earth.

It functions as an omnipresent beam of light, guiding us high up to the sun and the stars, yet holding us grounded, and near, to the soil and its serenity. Life upon life is built upon its roots. Something you can touch and something you’ll never be able to see. A place that only Moon Children can truly understand. But when you see the light,

                you see the light.

Illustrated by Ella Zomber.

McKenna Matus is a 24 year old visual artist and writer from Pennsylvania, now living in Los Angeles. Her creative career spans across the fields of photography, editorial production, fashion styling, filmmaking, and journalism, having had her work featured in Vanity Fair and Glamour UK, Cultured Magazine, L’Officiel US, Harpers Bazaar Taiwan, Flaunt Magazine, and Pilot Magazine, to name a few. She self-published her first two poetry books, When I’m Me and Poems for People, at the age of 19, chronicling her experiences with Bipolar 2 disorder from within and outside of mental hospitals and psychiatric care. McKenna has a deep love and connection to nature and cities alike, drawing inspiration from her own mind’s hallucinatory wanderings and the artfulness of an oftentimes apocalyptic world. Moon Child is her first (non self) published work of poetry.