This collection reads like a patchwork quilt of fragmented memories and observations, some more distinct than others. “Nucleation or phagocytosis, what is the metaphor?” (p. 20) Exactly.
Favorite Poems: “And when / you’re a paradox” “Forced and even suggested migration” “Once at Costco a man yelled at my mother” “In the photo of my mother at Disneyland” “I think about the power of a mobile architecture” “I am one of the kids brought into consciousness” “Having a ‘lump’ in one’s throat” “Because of their age” “In geometry an asymptote refers to a curvature” “There was a period of time when I lived” “There’s something about poetry”