Kristina Mahr

Say It's the Sea Kristina Mahr

The tide grabs you by
the ankles and drags you
back out to sea every time
you reach for me. Right? Say
it's the tide. Say it's the sea.
Say you are not
choosing this. Kristina Mahr's fifth poetry collection, Say It's the Sea, finds new and simultaneously exhilarating and heart-wrenching ways to blend her familiar lyrical style with further exploration of what it means to be human, to be brave, to love. To go all in and lose it all. To get it back. And to risk it all again.