My Work Among the Faithful (Lynx House Press)

This is a lovely collection of poems. Funny, insightful, with the spontaneous flow that comes from careful craftsmanship. The natural world is finely observed here as is the inner landscape of the mind. Humdrum details of daily life combine seamlessly and often quite wittily with fantastical episodes from dreams. I look forward to more work from this author.

I read Lisa's poems today, thoughI'm not quite really sure what she said.Either my mind's wondering in or wondering outor else it's completely dead.The visual imagery of oft used miceeclipses intended metaphor,To sense of this make first knead and then bakeAnd consume squares of house-mouse petite four.Free verse about spring, life ,death and De Sadeevoke deeply deep thoughts about time,Though Poe composed madness of opium sadnessI, like Rostand, scream: Ho! For a Rhyme!Poetry is as poetry does what a meaningless pap and contaminator,But can you make a quick buck with a cerebral f..k Snuggled into iambic pentameter?