Ross’s Reviews > Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems > Status Update

There’s a split-page poem early on. Left side conversational; right non-diegetic. Not written to be read across lines. But on the last page, the left (“She was doing what women do / even then.”) stretches your eyes to the right (“Coltrane leafs through / the voluminous air for some note / to save us from ourselves”) and you must read
“She was doing what women do to save us from ourselves”