Natural Trouble continues Scott Hightower’s investigation begun in Tin Can Tourist . Themes of inheritance extend through changes of landscape and bad weather to hungers, urgencies, inequities, and bereavements. Hightower also reminds us that the practice of writing is at the core of poetry seeks a foundation in the truth of the individual, guaranteed and restored through the integrity of language.
A delicious read ... ... to be savored. Hightower unveils a thick portal into that irrevocable condition of time, passing and escaping ... with our remnant notions of the things expired - both individual and universal - stitched back up again with the deftest needle and thread ... producing moments tactile, layered, and precise.