What Could I Have Said with a Mouthful of Salt

<p>“Sinister alabaster always transforms us from mermaids into monsters.” Prose, poetry, and recipes concerning the sea as a site of forced labor.</p> <p>“<a href="https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/issues/25/contents/what-could-i-have-said-with-a-mouthful-of-salt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What Could I Have Said with a Mouthful of Salt</a>” by Sean D. Henry-Smith & Imani Elizabeth Jackson is part of <a href="https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/issues#25" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Resentment</a>, the twenty-fifth issue of Triple Canopy, that is devoted to reclaiming—if not recuperating—resentment, especially as harbored by those who are used to fits of anger and bitterness being indicted as unproductive, petty, selfish, even pathological.</p>