Small Remedies

Small Remedies by Allison P. Brown is a spellbook for the soul-an intimate, lyrical manual for surviving the quiet devastations of modern life. Selected for the engine(idling)'s Summer 2025 Poetry Micro-Chapbook Series, this collection offers poetic "remedies" for everything from insomnia and apathy to fascism and hopelessness. Brown invites readers to enact rituals of resilience, transforming everyday objects and moments into tools for emotional survival, evolking language that is both sacred and absurd. Each poem is a gesture of care, a gift for those feeling deeply in a fractured world. Raw, inventive, and deeply human, Small Remedies is not about healing-it's about enduring with grace, grit, and a touch of magic.