The Laundress of Time

The Laundress of Time travels many landscapes. Float skyward with Crane-girl on the 1,000 origami that she folds. Rest "at home as any catfish" in the Mississippi, but know too that this river "that can bring you peace would slip you under its surface without so much as a ripple." Like the juggler's "whistling knives" at Jackson Square, Donna Langevin's images take you with such force that your reality too will feel as "precarious as a tilted house." With her "fragile faith," you are immersed in a "river of souls." Sit in a nursing home with the poet's dying mother craving "raw sky and the freedom to fly away." Refuse to eat anything but ice cream. Drink "rosehip tea the colour of sunset" ... drink in these rich, fierce poems and be strangely comforted.