ebbs caressive

Author: Daze Jeffries

Publisher: Antiphony (2026)

Of skin-yarns and circumbondage, ebbs caressive is woven from sea spit, subterfuge, and sex worker desire. A vessel, a foremother, a port, and a joy house entangle rural histories of women and water.

Daze Jefferies is the author of oceanleaving (Gordon Hill) and the co-author of Autoethnography and Feminist Theory at the Water’s Edge: Unsettled Islands (Palgrave Pivot). Her work has also been published in The Ex-Puritan, PRISM international, filling Station, Arc, the Journal of Folklore Research, and the League of Canadian Poets’ Visual Poetry Chapbook, as well as anthologized in Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry (Arsenal Pulp).