Beat voices Book

I have a hard time marking poetry books as finished. When you read a novel you know when the story is complete, but poems get stuck in our head, demand to be revisited. Trapeze by Deborah Digges will be one of those oft revisited volumes. Such a magnificent talent for entangling words with mortality and meaning. Boat (p. 18) I recommend to my friend Roxane who took me kayaking for the first time. Trillium (p. 38) takes me back to my days in Wisconsin where meeting the dog's daily needs was sometimes the only reason I got up and where the trillium on the ferny hillsides rewarded me for the effort. Seersucker Suit (p. 14) a specific yet universal father/daughter poem. Also remarkable are the poems Telling the Bees (p.5), Becoming a Poet (p. 11) and the title poem Trapeze (p.10) which takes the poetic leap from the dying to "children on swings pumping higher and higher." and warning us "Don't call them back, don't call them for supper./See, they leave scuff marks like jet trails on the sky."