Wholesale Seeking Blue, by Alexis Smith

Poetry, chapbook, 24 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Seeking Blue is a collection of poems that comment on who comes after. Searching for love beyond the devastation of divorce and finding infatuation. This prose cuts ripely open the subject of loneliness and what happens to us when we dare to allow someone to hold us again. A peek into intimate fantasy and the dangers of letting someone in. Alexis Smith is a single mother raising three young children in the Sacramento Valley. She writes on the topics of infatuation, longing, growth and grief through divorce. Alexis is obsessed with romanticism of the ordinary and fixates on how small details can be made to feel encompassing. Seeking Blue is her second published chapbook. Her first is Crater of Diamonds also published by Bottlecap Press.