Seasonal Affective Disorder, by Robert J. Wilson

Poetry, chapbook, 24 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

Summer turns to autumn and chestnut leaves shroud the body of a forest shrew, spring turns to summer and a colony of bees gather on a linden tree’s blossoms.

Seasonal Affective Disorder recounts the decay and regeneration, suffering and beauty, of the transformative beings which serve as subjects of these poems, from a homeless woman laying claim to an island which has been deserted by the threat of an impending hurricane, to cottonwood seeds filling a woods with the illusion of snow in early summer.

The angle of the sun is shifting. Come. Before we display the flowers help me cut the stems.

Robert J. Wilson’s poems have most recently appeared in SoFloPoJo and Passionfruit Review, and his work Spring Tide won the Seneca Park Zoo (NY) 2024 spring writing contest. Seasonal Affective Disorder is his fourth chapbook in print. He lives beside the ocean in Cape Haze, Florida.