The poems in One Flesh are written with various anonymous-person points of view. A window from each of their lives is slightly cracked open for readers to eavesdrop on their movements and words through an accessible free-verse poetic delivery.
A real-life relationship between couples-aside from Facebook and other social-media photos of bliss-actually does not follow a seamless line of untainted existence for most of us, whether we are religious, agnostic, atheistic, or simply secular in our world view. Our humanity is the common denominator connecting us all in this journey as imperfect beings striving for unity, completeness, and perfection in relation to one another.