That's the very nature of Saturn, by Michy Woodward

Poetry, chapbook, 24 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Navigating the hard truths of Saturn Return and all the wreckage and healing that comes along with it, this debut chapbook is a personal invitation into a solar revolution and what emerges from it. The poems explore the tension between destruction and tenderness. In search of queerness and hope, the collection of poems ask the question of what exists within the constraints of chaos. That’s the very nature of Saturn is the lessons learned through momentary pleasure, desire and “fighting to love and grieve / and grieve and love / conspiring to take form.” The chapbook follows the direction and redirection of the cosmos and how they force us to embrace change. Moving from the subtleties of daily life and fleeting memories to reflections on identity, the poems range in style and length. The transformation throughout the poems demands resilience, vulnerability and humor in order to navigate a true coming of age. Michy Woodward (she/her) is a queer, mixed-race Asian American Brooklyn-based writer and artist from Miami. She loves exploring intimacy, sensation, and the relationship between interiority/exteriority through her writing. Her work largely indulges in the softness of everyday life. Her poetry has been published in Bullshit Lit, Queerlings, Lavender Review, Roi Faineant Press, Silly Goose and The Amazine. You can find her on instagram @michywoodward. She loves Sundays, her cat Kimi, and being near bodies of water.