With Our Lungs in Our Hands by Bethany Lee

Poetry
52 pages
8.5" x 7" single signature with hand sewn binding
Published December 2016

With Our Lungs in Our Hands is a precise, exacting and emotionally charged exploration of intimacy, infidelity, love and loss. From the unexpected touch like an accident in “How It Begins” to the many ponderings of leave takings in “What to Do” we are reminded that all relationships are made of a series of moments, how we react to and are changed by them, the moments that follow.

from "What to Do"

Understand that all doors

are big doors, and that to exit
and to leave are not the same:
every exit ends
a scene, but to leave
you must mean it.