Animals Are Shouting Down From the Sky

<p><em>Talmud is busy telling me how to make a wine sack</em></p><p><em>out of a beaver's stomach lining. Out the window</em></p><p></p><p><em>the redwood's gone. It's started to rain maybe Adderall</em></p><p><em>in the drops ocean is calmed down.</em></p><p></p><p>Often heart-stopping these poems abound in images uniquely unfamiliar. Not intended for the casual reader they capture the violation of nature free speech silenced humanity flattened families - and friends - failing as they often do. Yet above all the poems are profoundly nourishing. How can that be? In part because of the poet's delicious humor even more so that rare thing her purity of soul and above all because she tells the truth.</p><p><strong>-Merle Feld</strong> author of <em>Longing Poems for a Life</em></p>