Our Bones Ache Together by Kendra Nuttall
2020 changed us. From a global pandemic that uprooted our lives and took the lives of countless loved ones, to cries for justice that rang out across the world, 2020 is a year that we cannot forget. It’s a year that we shouldn’t forget. Written almost entirely in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic, Our Bones Ache Together is a journey of heartache, home, healing, and hope. Documenting the disappearance of the middle class, growing wealth disparity, and life during seemingly endless unprecedented times, these poems remind us of the pain we carry, but also of the hands we hold to keep moving. Life goes on, even when we don’t believe it can. From the coldest winter, spring blooms.
Kendra Nuttall is a copywriter by day and poet by night. She writes about grief, loss, and the struggles and hope of the human experience. She earned her BA in English from Utah Valley University (UVU) in 2018. Kendra was also a first-place poetry winner in UVU’s Touchstones journal and a presenter and winner at UVU’s 2019 Showcase Awards. Her work has previously appeared in Spectrum, Sad Girl Review, Capsule Stories, Chiron Review, What Rough Beast, and the Good Cop/Bad Cop anthology from FlowerSong Press, among several other publications. She is the author of poetry collection, A Statistical Study of Randomness (Finishing Line Press, 2021) and is a poetry reader for Capsule Stories. She lives in Utah with her husband and poodle. When she's not writing, you can find her hiking around Utah, watching reality TV, or attempting to pet every animal she sees. Find her online at kendranuttall.com.