Kimberly Lyons
Saline
ISBN: 09679854-3-9
10 dollars

Lyons dives into her mega topic, chaos, telling the story of her poetry, a "tremulous uncertainty / of the broken sentence chain." Hers is an erotica of iconic tropes, of "a ghost fish" with "ungathered / intentions," as well as a poetics of idealization on a "tangled tract" waiting for "inconstant human possibility." This is inconstancy that holds the present to a past and a future, just as a "baby's fingernail" holds feelings both "enormous" and "transparent," equal to "Saline reservoirs" overflowing with "the kind of life / that needs no light" and that comes out of "old ice."

--Jack Kimball