Meditations on Leaving by Emily Ronay Johnston

Meditations on Leaving by Emily Ronay Johnston is a poetic, photographic exploration of leaving as “a process of returning to what matters, a coming undone, a becoming/ again.” Its poems leave—relationships stuck in patterns of abuse and denial, the desire for ruin, the desire for control, rape, rumination, homelands, codependency—returning, again and again and again, to the fierce perfection of the present moment.