Wholesale Rainbows & Unicorns, by Jenny Morelli

Poetry, chapbook, 48 pages, from Bottlecap Features. First, there’s the hurt. Then comes the healing. And the bridge from one to the other are stepping-stone words on a page. There are many truths and realities in any family, but one thing’s for sure. Ask each member of that family, and their truth will differ from yours; after all, truth is just perception, and not all of it is rainbows and unicorns. Memories and yesterday’s ghosts are shifty little creatures that love to mess with the muse and memoirist, but black and white and all the grays betwixt are real when they’re conjured and channeled from mind through hand to paper, so within these pages lie the harsh and heartfelt truths I’ve recalled in my nether state writing, where all the magic and mayhem happens.