steeples and ‘scrapers” of an inquisitive mind. The poems are at once syllogistic, hard-edged, satirical, reflective, and finally as playful as love notes. The true joy of this book is that we are deliciously engaged...

And sometimes, and only in spring,a dove from the river’s soft vale of lilieswill fly as close to you as trust,and a calm in the great reds of autumnwill, as often as you need, lie...