Good Lonely Day

Poetry. John Clarke writes beautifully about the natural world about marshes orchards blackbirds deer a one-footed pheasant or the arrival of first snow / tapping its small canes. His poems like the country night sky to which he often calls our attention glitter with fine detail are compact and tightly tuned with a Zen-like clarity of line. GOOD LONELY DAY is essentially about watching that leads to seeing about inner and outer weather. Clarkes poems register both the small and immense changes that seasons days and hours bring; they are a source of beauty and wisdom that invite a reader to return--Peter Makuck.