Dead-end path through woodsin spring thaw prairie grouse stomps & booms on the lekpinnated subterfuge “repairs to a torn fabric” draglines & clay tiles in April breakinto lonely wild sounds two orange pockets appear & disappear in featherson predawn hilltop a sun a sail a shoot“Each life conveys to some certain center” she said a …
Disappearance: North Sea Poems. Lesley Harrison. Shearsman Books, 2020. 78 pp.$18.00 (paper).Civil Bound. Myung Mi Kim. Omnidawn, 2019. 96 pp. $17.95 (paper).Colonize Me. Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley. Saturnalia, 2019. 112 pp. $16.00 (paper).Doomstead Days. Brian Teare. Nightboat Books, 2019. 176 pp. $17.95 (paper). This spring, during Michigan’s stay-at-home order in response to the coronavirus pandemic, I …