mess is a unit of measure
encouragement to share and value memories
between humans and the non-human natural world
Piggie Sue the Boston Terrier and her fluffy feline sidekick
but it is also both gorgeous and familiar
Dope Calisthenics Author|Tracy Moore mess is a unit ofSylvia Jones's sophomore collection examines the pressure exerted on working class Black life by spectacle, debt, inheritance, and the market's endless demand for performance. The poems move through Baltimore, television, retail language, protest remnants, and borrowed speech, tracking how public feeling hardens into product and how survival becomes a style others learn to consume. Class aspiration and class entrapment, the theater of mobility, and