Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair: Poems social studies Nona is like other people

Nona is like other people

“is a raw fearless innocent gay Black kid’s journey coming out into life at an incredible pre-AIDS period

where outcasts from conventional society can meet

and only Matt in on the secret

Rivers in Your Skin, Sirens in Your Hair: Poems social studies Nona is like other peopleBy: Marisca Pichetta When I left home I took only what I could carry What will you bring with you down the path, through the hills and into the woods? Fragments, stories, living things? Echoes of the past, promises for the future? In fifty new and collected poems, Marisca Pichette celebrates myth, folklore, and memory. Her poems traverse landscapes both real and imagined, taking inherited tales and retelling them through a queer lens. From dusk into