Rob Baker’s Reviews > Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 > Status Update

Should finish this today! The last twenty pages or so are end notes, etc.

"And not the one whose specialty was
making a bad habit sound more excusable by calling it
ritual".

--from "Pale Colors in a Tall Field"

"'Don't you see how you've burnt almost
all of it, all the tenderness away,' someone screams
to someone else, in public--and looking elsewhere,
we walk quickly past, as if even to have head
that much might have put us at risk of whatever fate
questions like that

spring from...."

--from "Monomoy"

".........the higher
gods having long refused me, let the gods deemed lesser
do the best they can" (142)

"Not because there was nothing to say, or we
didn't want to--we just stopped speaking
entirely, but like making a gift of it: Here;
for you...

...I've been wrong about more than, despite
memory, I had though was possible"

from "For the Long Hold"