In Jessica Poli's Red Ocher, the wild mortality of the natural
world merges with melancholic expressions of romantic loss: a lamb
runt dies in the night, a first-time lover inflicts casual
cruelties, brussels sprouts rot in a field, love goes quietly and
unbearably unrequited. This is an ecopoetics that explores the
cyclical natures of love and grief, mindful that "there will be
room for desire / again, even after it leaves / like a flood
receding, / the damaged farmhouses / and washed-away bridges /
lying scattered the next day / amid silt and debris." Throughout,
Poli's poems hold space for the sacred-finding it in woods
overgrown with thorny weeds, in drunken joy rides down rural roads,
and in the red ocher barns that haunt the author's physical and
emotional landscapes.
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