Spooky Action

<p>Einstein spoke dismissively of spooky action at distance the idea that separate objects could somehow share a simultaneous condition across space and time or what is sometimes referred to as quantum entanglement. Yet the phrase persists and serves as a powerful metaphor for the work poetry does. In John Mulrooney's amazing new book lyric performs this entanglement bridging distant states of mind and registers of experience with a swiftness and a surprise that is indeed spooky. ... The suffering and loss of this world haunts these poems with an elemental pathos the power of a fading logos written in the language of ghosts who still speak out of the dark in a human voice. -Patrick Pritchett</p><p></p><p>SAMPLE POEM:</p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Poem After Solstice</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>    </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>for John Wieners</em></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A storm is </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>a rhetorical device</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>a retrieval of lost syllables</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>rain foils the foliage to be</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and it's got something up </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>my sleeve.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The year I was born</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>a god sauntered down the boardwalk</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>on Revere Beach and stole your girl</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>with his stare.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I retained nothing I stared at</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>that year or the next</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>although it's likely most </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>of what I did </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>was stare;</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>an impregnable embrace of the world </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>that those around me probably called wonder.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The first propriety squandered.</span></p><p></p>