“Chest of Drawers” takes us into the realm of the surreal, for here, the husband of a pregnant woman does indeed find little drawers growing in his chest, and in them, he begins to carry small items (such as his wife’s lipstick) as well as small dolls that distortedly mirror his wife’s condition. A doctor has proposed using Poppy as a surgical experiment, and his puffed-up view of himself reduces her status to that of a laboratory animal, in contrast to the heartbreaking surge of love the parents experience. “Poppyseed,” from the section entitled Birth, presents a dual narrative in which a father gives us a relatively objective perspective and a mother a far more subjective one on their severely incapacitated daughter, Poppy. Lyrical stories arranged around themes of birth, gestation, conception and love-yes, in that order.
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