Amie Whittemore

Amie Whittemore is a poet whose work explores issues of place, gender, and sexuality, and the author of Glass Harvest. Amie is currently based in Murfreesboro, TN, where she is a lecturer at Middle Tennessee State University.

Read more about her at www.amiewhittemore.com.

These two poems are the first two in a long series I am still developing. I am not quite sure where it is headed. I know there is a kind of re-awakening happening to the mandrakes, perhaps in a post- human world (though I’m not sure if that’s true). I know that they came out of the early days of the pandemic, as a way to access something like hope. These are hopeful mandrakes, though their songs are mostly of longing and not fulfillment.