Flowers on a Train

<p><em>Flowers on a Train </em>traverses a natural world both real and imagined where we hunger for something beyond the boundaries of loss. Rich in crisp lush imagery and filled with family food art and music the poems take us to local and far away places. Walking the neighborhood before surgery we encounter a talking tree hiking in a Sierra storm the skies appear as a white bird and listening to a New York jazz combo we time-travel to Paris in the 20s. In the end Benjamin shows us that through memory forgiveness and reconciliation we can navigate what's broken. </p>