Into the Wolf Lucy Mercer featuring signed languages such as

featuring signed languages such as ASL

oddity and generosity of spirit

or in those poems that chronicle the experience of illness in the time of covid

The Girl Who Forgets How to Walk finds comfort in the ancient limestone of her home county as she teaches herself to move again along its hills and coastlines

the unresolved history of the Second

Into the Wolf Lucy Mercer featuring signed languages such asA LYRICAL AND, AT TIMES, CHALLENGING first collection that settles, in a satisfying stream of synchronicity, into a 3 4 5 6 pattern. There are three broad categories. Four of the poems are inspired by shapeshifting the poets shamanic world view and include a whirlwind tour of nations where shamanic practices and beliefs remain deeply baked into their underlying structures. Five poems are autobiographical in nature, predominantly about pain and death;