"Katarina Kelley's debut collection feels intimate, as though a lover from antiquity really did write each prose poem to their beloved. The language flows smoothly, with metaphor and simile effectively used, and yet each simple elegant "letter" is a work of beauty." - Cat Russell, Soul Picked Clean Katarina Kelley invites you to experience love with her: the pain, the flames, and the bittersweet longing. This work is a passionate painting of love and all the terrors that come with it. This debut poetry collection contains over 70 powerful, gritty works. XXVIII "Scrambled words of scrambled love Every night I pour them into the void I pretend is you I wish you hadn't left me so far away from you I wish it was easier for me to give up on you."