BREAK OF DAY

The debut chapbook by Heath Joseph Wooten.

praise for BREAK OF DAY from Hannah Cajandig-Taylor, author of ROMANTIC PORTRAIT OF A NATURAL DISASTER (2020):

This is one of those collections that will live on your bedside table, begging to be revisited time and time again. These poems are the opulent light spilling into our broken places, illuminating and intimate, imploring us to linger amidst the moments in between. Tender images of bursting flora, twilight musings, and the fleetingness of love in all its capacities are explored through Wooten's intricate, yes accessible fragmentation. Delicate and merciful, these words are an open hand, reaching toward a stone to skip, an opened umbrella, or even another person desperate for closeness and closure. Stories are sung. The natural becomes self portrait. BREAK OF DAY shows us that our fractures make radiant kaleidoscopes if we are brave enough to bare ourselves to the dawn.