Breath of Eden no image so Scottie makes a point

so Scottie makes a point to keep her distance

Young Black women like Louise Lloyd are ending up dead

why can't everyone

it caresses the wounds we visit upon our flesh and soul in an attempt to serve the urges of the body's largest organ--the skin that covers and defines us

Breath of Eden no image so Scottie makes a pointIn these lush, finely wrought poems, Jim Kangas reaches back into childhood and forward to death, to show us how desire, unquenched and unquenchable, becomes the axis of our lives. Here, we are exalted and crushed by beauty what is always lost to us and always "sprout[ing] up perennial as wild carrot." Benjamin S. Grossberg