Antidote

“If you really are an old soul, / I try to imagine your smile / as anything but an eclipse,” Fleegal writes. Her radiant, crystalline lines have the power to light even the darkest times. -Mary Biddinger, author of Saint Monica and O Holy Insurgency "To “disencumber,” is how Fleegal puts it, is what the poems in this domestically sensual book are doing, healing as they create, defining as they dare, revealing passion within passion like a centerless onion or rose." -Matt Mauch, author of Prayer Book and If You're Lucky is a Theory of Mine