Mother Night by Serge ♆ Neptune Helen Calcutt often drawn from the molten

often drawn from the molten core of childhood

Her poetry has been published widely in magazines and anthologies

but also parents and children

and who observes nature ‘aslant’ as in a friend’s phobia about birds in ‘Maybe Owls’

Mother Night by Serge ♆ Neptune Helen Calcutt often drawn from the moltenMother Night is a hallucinogenic journey across a city with too many alleyways and across a life surviving childhood sexual assault. Forming a nocturnal sance, Serge Neptune resurrects abusive old lovers and ghosts of the queers of the past conjures men in cars and men in bedrooms providing them invitation and shelter, or casting them to stormy waves. In a book of many types of darkness across poems of vulnerability and harm what persists in Mother