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Landscape with Silos

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Here are poems of intellectual play; a wide range of valences drive the observations. In one, there is a quiet visitation to the past... to a childhood landscape where the U.S. built multiple missle silos. In another, a poem about baton twirling turns magically into an ars poetica. In still another, the poet mells getting a police mug shot with being a youth, standing on a coffee table, and being fitted by her kneeling grandmother for a summer dress. A poem about a barn and the constellation Orion becomes a metaphor for the reflective art of writing: "Some say the moon makes things / look strange. I think it lets us see how / strange things are, scarecrows in / their wedding clothes, the way light snows / on trees. The Bible says the sun's got / one kind of glory, the moon another. / I see best in moon-lit glory." Poem by poem, it is all about another way of seeing things. The politics of reflection gives way to the real politics of poetry! Bogen has given us a generous collection of smart poems.