Dropwater Hemlock & The Wilderness

Dropwater Hemlock & The Wilderness Half poetry - half prose, "Dropwater Hemlock & The Wilderness" details the narrators struggle with feelings of grief after losing his sister, a nomadic, characterful, raving free spirit, to suicide. In a series of flash backs in the time between hearing of her death up until her funeral encompassing a trip to Reykjavik Iceland in the Winter that followed, the narrator describes childhood memories, dreams and sometimes supernatural premonitions that interlink whilst traversing the unfamiliar landscape that is grief at losing a sibling which the narrator has come to name "The Wilderness".