Then Darkness

<p>In their new pamphlet Jaydn DeWald offers a haunting meditation on love and loss-a series of grief-induced sketches 'where drums pound // the whispers' and 'a horn wails / [t]he darkness.' What is the difference asks DeWald between an incantation and a poem a ritual and a song? Engaging well-known poets and heretofore unknown forms <em>Then Darkness</em> embodies the restorative if not the resurrectional powers of apostrophe. </p>