These poems explore the identities we offer, and those we refuse. Through confessional lines that rend the veil between truth and illusion, Sara Rempe takes us to the places where mercy & forgiveness entwine.
Rescue
(for Sid)
Everything is a threat.
Even the soft offering
of an open palm
is suspect. The past is
leashed to us
like shadow.
Here is the lesson
we didn’t learn:
there are people
who want to love us.
