Skinny Dipping with Strangers, Vol. 2: Poems

"This is the church of bright mercy/ the forgiveness you gift yourself after/ you have recited your guilt so long/ your throat has become a worn rosary. This/ the dance after joints come alone/ again. Limb ecstatic hymn. Blood-crazed revelry." Skinny Dipping with Strangers is the debut poetry chapbook from South Carolina poet Derek Berry. These poems celebrate & spark. Get undressed. Slip into the water with us. Come skinny dipping with strangers and expose all your private bits to the world. Learn first how to introduce yourself to the ocean, then step with no purpose but to remind your feet of their funky groove, to compose a new rhythm for your pulse. This book is written for a young adult audience, the reader during their first foray into poetry & spoken word.