Confluence

“Comfort is when / you are tethered / to a place / you couldn't move / fast from anyway,” Sandy Marchetti writes in Confluence, and we can take deep comfort in her lovely and loving tetherings to place, both pastoral and domestic, where "What's young / comes lick-swift” and one's beloved is always nearby to “delight in,” to make one's “skin a new bird, white in the morning-bright and newly downy.” What a shining debut.
–Jason Koo, author of America’s Favorite Poem and Man on Extremely Small Island