Emotional Support Horse by Claudine Toutoungi Em Strang close yet never quite in

close yet never quite in focus

fed by layers of nutrient-rich peat and supporting scores of species

or away from

unsettling and dark

linking it to concepts of fatherhood and kinship in other species

Emotional Support Horse by Claudine Toutoungi Em Strang close yet never quite inThis tragi comic, or comi tragic grief journal blends loss and low vision into poems that issue in startling joy. Emotional Support Horse tracks the course of a lived bereavement intensified by sight loss and eco stress. But wit is not only an element of style, it is a state of imagination, and it leads out of dark depth into the region of joy. A woman longs to metamorphose into Nicola Walker in a cop car, or a Hungarian Viszla or just to find an