Poetry · Available on Kindle
Meat
Puppet
Poems from war, love, loss—and the stubborn choice to continue.
A journey through darkness—toward life
Meat Puppet is Robin Raphael’s first poetry collection. Its poems draw on lived experience, memory, love, loss and the long shadow of being called to war before adulthood had properly begun.
The collection moves through four parts—Already Dead, Winter Inside, The Grip Loosens and A Life in the Sun. The voice can be bruised, angry, tender and bleak, but it keeps moving. Even at its darkest, the work refuses to surrender the possibility of light.