Transit, by Savannah S. Miller

Poetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Often it feels as though we stand in one place and the world simply moves around us. We craft new lives based on our different environments and unlock versions of ourselves we never knew existed. We watch as the people we used to be are buried and reborn with different haircuts, tattoos, and lovers, and through it all we are caught in the constant search for something called a Home. Transit is a collection of poems born out of displacement: mental and physical, intentional and accidental. They are the thoughts that haunt you as your stare out an airplane window, the dream that comes to you as you sleep against the train car wall. These poems are what you wish you had said as you face your reflection as the sun slowly rises, and they are unapologetically hopeful that one day, somehow Home can be found or made. Savannah S. Miller (she/her) is a queer and disabled writer and theatre artist. A strong believer in the power of words, she considers herself an inventor and agitator, and her art and scholarly pursuits a means of activism and therapy. Her fiction and poetry have been published with Modern Language Studies, Jelly Bucket, Flash Fiction Magazine, Watershed Review, and others. AB, Dartmouth College; MFA, Augsburg University. Read more at savannahsmiller.com.