Day 3 of NaPoWriMo, and yet another poem…and also a mini-review!

I Forgot to Tell You the Most Important Part

Poof!

Mini-Review of Laurel Snyder’s The Myth of the Simple Machines, from No-Tell Books

It didn’t surprise me that Laurel has become a successful children’s book author, because this delightful book of poems is full of fanciful stories, narrating the life of “the girl.” Some poems describe eerie dreams, others comment on mundane life and mundane desires (from “I Covet Everything I Own:” “I covet every/ gone year, every wet summer, every early supper/ on a citronella porch…I covet drunk and tired and quietly,/ you. I covet my own thighs last year.”) All of the poems have a delicate melancholy, building up an imagistic daisy chain that collects fragments of memories, prophecy, faith and foreboding.