I loved this lush, introspective, generous book. Kelly explores lineage, the natural world, and the harrowing times we are living through. I was most taken by the love poems that are woven seamlessly throughout the book. They were sensuous, evocative, and healing. Gorgeous book.

Thanks to NetGalley for an advanced copy of this book.

My favorites are:
Its gone be what it is
Confronted with the argument of your body—
We Came Here to Get Away From You
Metamorphose

The way the author mirrored and reflected nature throughout the poems was beautiful.

This is a lovely, mostly joyous collection of poetic gems. Kelly's voice absolutely comes through in every line.

The wings of color and spacing of the title alongside the wings were a beautiful design and an idea of the poetry forms to come! A poetry collection about the natural order of things but how does one define the natural order? Everything in the universe is governed by a force of expectations dictated by mother nature herself and not the way humanity attempts to bend the world to their whim. A conversational poetry collection that unveils the deep thoughts associated with the way we look at the natural order of things. This will have you question how we think we manipulate the world to our whim but we are gaslighting ourselves as natural prevails.
How do we define the order of our lives? That is based on the perspective of how the readers personally interact with their current environment and how the Kelly plays with line poetry to force the readers to think further. These are deep questions that poetry really is empowered to expand our critical thinking here. This is a critique on capitalism and the way humans disturb the order themselves. Each poem is written like a conversation with the author. The meter is switched to a coherent conversational tone. Although I would have loved a bit more rhymes and lyrics – I understand that this format really provides more deep thought to the world around us. I also adore poets who take the time to play with the lines and diction in the poem to truly get their points across.
As the poetry collection expands from poem to poem I noticed their were subtle pagan takes with the relationship with nature. Poems such as the “Major Arcana” and “Desire Path: Near Equinox” really resonated with my soul. This collection is not pagan in concept but expands on the beliefs that nature is cyclic and there is always a reason. There is something about the way we interact with the mother earth herself that draws out the question of humanities place in the natural world being much smaller than we would like to believe. In essence humbling humanity for a better treatment of mother nature’s course! Thank you Netgalley and Graywolf Publishing for this advanced digital copy.
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