“i would sleep on the floor if it meant that my breath and sweat would seep into the ground enough for me to see myself in it, i want to stuck, struck into this desert, but like dust, i dissipate.”

Inspired by writers such as Maggie Nelson and Anne Carson, a thesaurus for the way water returns deals with the jarring effects of physical and temporal displacement, leading the reader through the emotional topography of a narrator in surroundings that are simultaneously familiar and horrifically strange. 

 A 30 page long chapbook, a thesaurus for the way water returns includes six original illustrations from Saltiel, moving between the sparse beauty of minimalistic ink drawings to full watercolor illustrations, providing a visual accompaniment to the quiet loveliness of Saltiel's language. 

Published in collaborating with Riza Press, the book launched on Kickstarter on January 14, 2020, and is set to publish in May of 2020.