Fragile July by Oscar Nearly scottish In going that far down

In going that far down into the dark it somehow flies

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Formally deft and classically inspired

Fragile July by Oscar Nearly scottish In going that far downFragile July by Oscar Nearly is a mesmeric, slow burn excavation of memory, trauma, and domestic unreality, rendered through the porous, looping rhythms of prose poetry. Framed as a forensic reconstruction of a childhood summer, the text interweaves photographic description, childhood games, fragmentary scenes, and the ominous repetition of family motifs, digging, watching, swinging, with a precise, dissociative calm. Nearly's style is hallucinatory