Promise

<p>Sally Van Doren's <em>Promise</em> features a series of short lyric poems contemplative vignettes of daily life that examine friendship marriage and family with a veneer of playfulness. These poems take us into a space where a year is compressed into minutes and a small trickle of memory floods the mind. Van Doren a visual artist as well as a poet composes word collages that help us to touch the promise underneath the surface and to make sense of the senseless.</p>