Virgula by Sasja Janssen, translated by Michele Hutchison Laurel2022 to this sweet parenthesis

to this sweet parenthesis

and ultimately

Fascist prisons

—Penelope Shuttle

as do the effects of violence done to the body

Virgula by Sasja Janssen, translated by Michele Hutchison Laurel2022 to this sweet parenthesisVirgula, the Latin word for a comma, is what moves thoughts and languages forward and what stops the stillness. I long for a full stop, but my Virgulas are wary of employing them, I press them close as though death were breathing down my neck In Virgula, Sasja Janssens award winning collection, the comma becomes much more than a punctuation mark; it stops the stillness and allows thoughts and language to move forward. Virgula is invoked as a muse and