At the Foot of a Mountain

For his second collection At the Foot of a Mountain Kevin J. McDaniel's speakers wrestle with what feel like traumatic moments moments (big or small) in a person's life when he or she believes an entire mountainside will come crashing down as the speaker laments in the chapbook's title poem At the Foot of a Mountain. Nevertheless by the end readers are encouraged by the speaker's hope in a rebirth: but I know spring/will come again on wings/of a gentler breeze that uplifts/saplings rooted sideways/in moonmilk underground.