Sarah Carey's second full-length poetry collection traces the arterial pathways of the poet's past, mapping the vital currents that pulse between memory, perception, and identity. Anchored in place yet mindful of time's fluidity, the poems in BLOODSTREAM traverse Carey's Southern roots in Florida and North Carolina, moving through Alaska and beyond as the poet cycles between past and present, faith and doubt, while exploring the power of language to illuminate such contrasts. The poems elegize lost loved ones, including pets, which serve as a lens through which to examine attachment, loss, and unconditional love. Carey's verses serve as containers: rooms within rooms housing shape-shifting selves and lives in transition. Simultaneously, the poet reflects on broader natural ecosystems, including histories of specific flora and fauna, and her place within them. Whether investigating pigment structures, the nature of desire, or family heritage, Carey consistently contemplates language itself, asserting poetry's essential role in witnessing life's complexities. The work offers unexpected perspectives, from palm trees reflecting on evolution to encounters with Galapagos terrain, capturing both physical and existential landscapes. At its core lies an exploration of how perception shapes consciousness and memory. Carey explores color science, revisits childhood memories, reimagines her prenatal self, and reflects on childlessness and the personas she has embodied throughout her lifetime. Throughout BLOODSTREAM, Carey resurrects ancestors while examining her physical and emotional inheritance, probing the power of words, the weight of silence, and the corporeal rhythms of memories coloring past, present, and future.