Poetry. The poems in NOCTILUCENT begin where light exists or is created in darkness, a paradox. But this is not a "dark / light" of metaphor, but of the real and of relationship, where algae illumines the deep sea, the light of dead stars reach us from deep space, and night is a doorway, an entrance into the interior of self, other, cosmos. Melissa Buckheit bridges human experience personal, historical, social into this space where the very thing which is invisible or hidden, must be spoken. There is no Truth but truths, identity, eros, suffering, loss gleam along the interstices of...
Poetry. The poems in NOCTILUCENT begin where light exists or is created in darkness, a paradox. But this is not a "dark / light" of metaphor, but of t...
