title: The Whole by Contemplation of a Single Bone: Poems (Poets Out Loud)
author: Nancy K. Pearson
description: If Nancy Pearson chose to offer life lessons, moralizing, and even a bit of poemtificating about her struggles with meth addiction and depression in this latest collection, wed forgive her. Indeed, wed happily climb mountains to read anything she writes. (Matt Sutherland <i>Foreword Reviews</i>)<br /><br />So wondrous and happily strange that I had to take breaks in my reading of it to make sure that everything I thought I knew was still the way I remembered it. This is, in the best way, a book about what it means to be surprised. (<i>Michael Klein</i>)<br /><br />Not only one poem but the whole of Nancy K. Pearsons breathtaking second book, The Whole by Contemplation of a Single Bone, presses the question 'Do you understand the urgency?' Urgency hums through this collection like current through an electric fence. (<i>H.L. Hix</i>)
zlib_text: BROKEN
  WISHBONES AND
  EMPTY
  SPACES
   
   
  PYROKARDIA
  Illustrated by
  Noorain Moosvi
   
  Copyright © 2016 Pyrokardia
  Cover art and illustrations by Noorain Moosvi
  All rights reserved.
  ISBN: 1539668150
  ISBN-13: 978-1539668152
  
   
  DEDICATION
   
   
  This book is dedicated to all my followers on Instagram for their love and support.
  
  teach me how to break in beautiful
  my mouth speaks in silence
  my soul knows all the tales
  my pen leaks out tears
  
   
   
  CONTENTS
   
   
  Author’s Note
  Poems
  About the Author
   
  
  AUTHOR’S NOTE
   
  Poetry is such a personal art and everyone interprets a poem differently. Titling a
  poem can force an interpretation in a specific path, so I’m leaving all the poems
  untitled with a blank space and you can fill in a title that speaks to you personally. I
  do hope you enjoy reading them as much I loved writing these pieces of me in words.
  
  __________________
   
  Every day she breaks me into pieces
  maybe I’m not enough for her
  maybe she needs more of me to love
  
  __________________
   
  Love is th