words toward ‘Seraphim’ by Angelique Zobitz (CavanKerry Press 2024)

Seraphim
poems, Angelique Zobitz
CavanKerry Press, 2024

Seraphim, as studied into wrestled voice and receivable interrogation by poet Angelique Zobitz, is a work of violent winnings that knows join and joy to be close enough in the saying as to allow the lovesick and the bloodwrecked to speak healing into and from the wounds of differently seeded desires. Whether an utterance redacted by the written or a writing redacted by the said, it is always a singing that hears a listening song and hits the numb note of a language lived as a taking that’s given to steal. Versed fully by confrontation and slippage, Zobitz creates these poems in the constant already of the present where home is a spell that none recite entirely might sound evade trickery and seek to word itself found in churches and game shows, at suppers and salvations. As a reader, I felt housed and shown, unsafe and cared for, lifted and more earthly for an angelology so riotous and rescuing.

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reflection by Barton Smock