A Skittle in the Electrical Outlet

“”White gentle quartz— hiding in the bottom underneath skeletons of crayfish and scales of perch. Coiled up like a fern in the woods.”” —Amber Fisher A Skittle in the Electrical Outlet reads like an ode—to cool grass and horses, to the “”always open cracked spine”” of a journal (“”Journal””), to the creatures “”running for the tree flower”” (“”Cat and Bunny””). The natural world shines through as the authors collect vivid details: “”Worms excavating holes. / Maybe my roots will travel through those holes. / Water flooding through / The rain worms crawling to the surface”” (“”Puddles””). Telling stories of art and their families, there is no shortage of music in this book—both in the authors’ language and the way they praise beauty. A Skittle in the Electrical Outlet is the ninety-first book from Cow Tipping Press. Cow Tipping Press teaches and publishes writing by people with intellectual/developmental disabilities, giving audiences a new way to think about this rich form of human diversity in practice and in print. Learn more at www.cowtippingpress.org —- ISBN: 9798866154104