Domestica Stephanie Filio Christina Smith

Christina Smith

Mere decades after achieving independence from Great Britain

Their story is a history lesson on what agriculture was like at the turn of the twentieth century

Flowers are woven into the fabric of religion

Before 1861

Domestica Stephanie Filio Christina SmithSamuel Piccone's Domestica firmly plants its feet at the fraught intersection of inheritance and the escape from it. Across these interrogative poems, the routines of marriage, parenthood, and faith reside in a place where "every garden is erased by the thrum of impermanence." If "silence is the earth's way of embracing us in whatever loneliness we think we deserve," Piccone seeks whatever answers are held in the deepest recesses of that silence. At