Touch the Donkey #1 reviewed in Broken Pencil #67

Touch the Donkey #1 is reviewed by Scott Bryson in Broken Pencil #67. He writes:

[…]

The aforementioned sonnets aside – they’re expertly crafted by Camille Martin – several lucid and honest prose entries stand out, in this collection. Across two verses, Hailey Higdon discusses how she has “come to an agreement” with her dog regarding its need to be walked and her reluctance to participate, as she suffers through anxiety (or perhaps agoraphobia). In “Distraction,” Norma Cole examines a variety of memories that hint at the power of silence and absence, and the creativity born from incomplete knowledge.

There’s a consistently bleak – yet oddly gratifying – atmosphere surrounding the majority of these works. Pattie McCarthy sums it up in a way that’s both enigmatic and pitiable, in one of several poems titled “wifthing” (which deal with the history of the wife): “the shape of my midlife crisis is daniel radcliffe.”