Temporal Bones

Published by Oversteps Books 2016

50 pages – perfect bound

Cover photograph by Carol Ballenger

This book is not merely a retelling of the age-old records of our past, but an imaginative re-making, as all poetry should be. It is split into two parts: the first part is called Paradigm in Paradise, and the poetry truly is paradigmatic... The second part tells the story of the Skeleton Woman; and Inuit tale on which Taylor has put flesh and blood, but also feeling and emotion. It is a love story told with both passion and tenderness.

Patricia Oxley

Spend the Night in Our House until Dawn (excerpt)

I have made these words, my love,

as little cuts into a wet tablet of clay.

They are cuneiform and impressive

as the strands I use in my embroidery

of this intricate web of the flowers,

but together, we will be more.

We will be the promise, fulfilled

in the fecundity of the bees,

my tiny sequinned sisters,

my harbingers of harvest,