Opaque Melodies That Would Bug Most People

Opaque Melodies That Would Bug Most People is filled with young vibrant poems from a wise voice. The poems often wax reflective filled with the historicity of experience yet always returning to the now. Thus Mesler's collection is defined by beautiful immediacy intimacy and urgency. Constantly these poems remind the reader what it means to be human to be alive and living surrounded by a multitude of beating hearts and breathing lungs. While each poem recounts a snippet of life together the poems create an earthy blanket that connects readers to a single mind whose voice throughout remains delicate concrete and vital like an old friend. The verse engages the commonplace and the abstract with equal measures thoughtfulness. Each piece builds and builds until by the end the reader has experienced a life and come away refreshed having experienced hopeful energy.