Writing Their Way Home

The second half of the book explores the world of an adolescent daughter and the speaker's own adolescence, meditating on desire and sexual coming of age, before Paul brings us full circle in the final section, "Next Time the World Will Burn," which binds present and past. In the poem "Revision," Paul writes, As Paul states, the Lanark history she explores does not start at the beginning; rather, she is "opening the book to the middle // where the pop-up village springs to life." Fire-feathered phoenix- the torch of fate- denied death the chaos of harmony- Unbind her Love, unbind me from the rock of immortal injustice[.]