Life pinned to a specific even luminous window---Katrinka Moore's DIMINUENDO, Carla Sarett's SHE HAS VISIONS, Marc Zegan's LYON STREET
Poetry is to me the most difficult of literary forms.I love the narrative form. Poems, like a thread meander through the pages. Life is pinned to a specific even luminous window of time and place--in a poem. Katrinka Moore's Diminuendo (Pelekinesis), Carla Sarett's She Has Visions (Main Street Rag), Marc Zegan's Lyon Street (Bamboo Dart Press) could not otherwise be grouped together, though all are narrative poems. Moore's work happens in a forest, with an unnamed protagonist who may be human or a sprite. Sarett gives voice to a love of perfection, a marriage so suited that its untimely end and the shock of grief relives the beauty. Mark Zegan's book looks at an eternal passage of youth in a city for all time. DIMINUENDO Sensei ( first appeared in Otoliths) . Finally the milkweeds split and silk-winged seeds slow- stream breeze-borne A few come to ground burrow doze until spring ...