Water The Bones a liturgey for the Midwest by Marijean Wegert

Water The Bones

a liturgey for the Midwest

Marijean Wegert

Wegert was a PAN-O-PLY featured poet in February 2022. She regularly writes for Project Poetry Month, and we were excited to receive her first book of poems.

Her book is divided into three sections: The Wilderness, The Water, and The Well. Each section builds upon the other, seemingly moving through Wegert's life: her response to religion and incantations to the greater spirit of being a woman experiencing the world at a level of mystic glory beyond her past. In the last section, Wegert calls others out of their past to grow alongside her to new and exciting passions.

"I wanted to be a warrior. But I was a woman." Wegert writes in Debridement. This may be the antithesis of Wegert's poems. The poems move through her discovering her warrior self, a sort of coming of age. There is a sharp difference between the line in one of her first poems in the book, "We are shaped by what sees us." A Map of the Screaming Void and "She Might be a river spirit," in the last poem Overheard. You will love everything in between.

Available at thenorthmeridianreview.org and Amazon.