Arms Charlie Craigan a cache for poems that

a cache for poems that rekindle complicated memories

particularly in the ghazal-like title sequence

–Patricia Dawn Robertson

Paul has a remarkable ability to present the natural world infused with wonder and mystery

Afterword co-written by Nick Thran and Sue Sinclair

Arms Charlie Craigan a cache for poems thatDescription We are mesmerized, enthralled. A young, armless girl, tangled in the brutal arrowhead wire of glistening ivy, stares with dead eyes. If I had arms, I would embrace my shaking body. I would lift my hands to my face, cover my eyes, hold the aching scream in my mouth. Combining Wiccan ritual magic, Gnosticism, alchemy and of course Madeline Sonik's dazzling writing and storytelling, this magic realist novella relates the story of a young