A Thesaurus for the Way Water Returns

a thesaurus for the way water returns is the second poetry chapbook written by Sarah “Sam” Saltiel. Inspired by a move from Chicago to New Mexico, a thesaurus for the way water returns deals with the jarring psychological effects of physical and temporal displacement. The poetry simultaneously disorients and grounds the reader through intense examinations of intimacy and dreamlike descriptions of cognitive dissonance.    With her first poetry book, a long exposure of undoing, set to pu