https://rootsmoke.substack.com/p/maria-berardi

As with most of my more-recently published poems, this one is from a work in progress, a new book which takes as its theme the rearrangements and displacements of the psyche involved in the process of early recovery from addiction. It takes the form of “raw” prose poems interspersed with “cooked” verse poems to enact and reflect on this process, and the series of “Meditations in an Emergency” poems are on the raw side.