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I don't know how to review poetry collections - I haven't read enough of them, so I can't articulate the ways this one is unique. I'll just say that when I read poetry, the thing that hooks me is the imagery that certain phrases conjure. The poems I like make me read and reread phrases over and over, my brain sticking on the images. That was true for just about every poem in this collection, even if the larger meanings were tougher to identify...

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Some of these touched my soul, others slipped past my feeble mind, but the best? Those I held on my tongue and whispered to myself as incantations. Loved this! 🔮

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A little poetry for National Poetry Month.

I picked this up a few weeks ago after reading the first poem which resonated deeply with the weather, the season, and my mood that afternoon.

I was lucky to find this. It turned out to be one of those rare volumes in which I clearly saw myself reflected in words, people, and places I didn‘t know.

While I don‘t expect most readers to share this deeply personal response to the book, I‘d recommend the writing to anyone looking for new poetry.

from
“Political Poem”
on justice
“I go along, I get along, but I‘m not quite free.”
...and
“Here I draw the arc of two words: just is.”

I tried. I really did try for World Poetry Day, but poetry still isn‘t my thing.