Mihaela Moscaliuc

Indeed Jasmine

Arts & Literature

“‘Let every breath praise,’ counsels Deborah in poems that explore the natural world, spirituality, and family relations with intimate intensity and musical elegance. She lifts the ‘cover of bereavement’ to learn resilience from scars and reverence from brokenness. Indeed Jasmine is a testament to faith sustained through ardent observation; horses, oaks, egrets, ‘dust caked’ beneath fingernails, and the baba ganoush of the old country become ‘the weight / of wet ink on the page,’ a luminous stay against ‘mortality’s freight.’”