Earth&Silver’s Reviews > Indigo > Status Update

"Fungus on fallen alder at lookout creek" - whimsical similes and a burst of wonder. Continued intimate particularity. Who does this? Who finds fresh joy and meaning in the sequence of stripes in a fungus ruffle?

"Ode to Fat" - I am happy, wondering, a touch incredulous. In this world magnifying stick-thin models, I have just read a loving, even sensual praise of the beauty and health of a body with curves, reveling in them as a sign of returning to health.

"Ode to Zeke" - Oh my heartstrings.

"Marriage" and "Pushing" - both intimately earthy, viscerally biological, wanting, and a little fearful. I sometimes want to say this poet gilds the edges of things. But she doesn't, really. She brings their Thing-ness into stark relief, a heightened look with a camera lens, and all the rest of reality dim-shining bokeh in the backdrop.