American Lotus now and in the time

now and in the time to come

and ultimately a “holiday of plagues”—and arrive

One thinks of Homer

and laces our veins with visions of what we

Alexis Rhone Fancher

American Lotus now and in the timeThe wonderfully observational poems in Kevin Caseys American Lotus remind us how separate we are from the natural world, how we sometimes suer because of that estrangement, and oer us a way to bridge that divide. With a radical sympathy, poems like Red Maple (Acer rubrum) suggest that like this tree felled weeks ago, plunging with a sigh as the earth rushed up to receive it we too have been trimmed from this life. Once inside the rooms of these poems,