Scabbard of Her Throat, The

By Bernadette Geyer

2012 Hilary Tham Capital Collection selected by Cornelius Eady

Dana Roeser said Bernadette Geyer is “a student of luck, fairy tales, and magic, and of domestic life with its myriad attachments.” Cornelius Eady commented that these poems “are saturated by touch: fingers on a throat, hand on a door, wasp, clasped to a cicada’s back, fever to bodies, daughters to mothers, mythologies to linoleum.”