My Queen Titania
by Oswin Kerr
What dream is this, that truth should kneel to longing? That a fool might wear the crown of a queen's affection?
In My Queen Titania, Oswin Kerr presents a hauntingly sensual cycle of poems echoing with love, loss, and the spectral ache of memory. Drawing from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, this collection reimagines the enchanted bond between Bottom the Weaver and Titania - not as comedy, but as yearning, worship, and the fragile terror of being truly seen.
Structured in acts and lyrical interludes, these poems unfold like a fever dream - equal parts gothic confession and erotic hymn. Titania is both muse and monarch, illusion and incarnate desire. The speaker, like Bottom, is both foolish and exalted - caught in the tension between dream and flesh.
Through sonnets and lyric verse, prose interludes and whispered invocations, Kerr crafts a mythic love story in fragments - a poetic body that aches, touches, and remembers.