Post & Line: Poems Mike Chase and life stretches out long

and life stretches out long and lonely ahead of them

quiet seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother tends to the off-season customers

Humans have lived

Tommy and Tuppence

Makes a wonderful birthday gift

Post & Line: Poems Mike Chase and life stretches out longDamrosch's new collection of poetry, Post & Line, brims with connection and community, both with humans (bank tellers, grocery baggers, neighbors, family) and through visitations with all sorts of creatures (owls, kiskadees, Carolina wrens, goldfinches, to name a few). Words themselves also come within the scope of her acute attention. The words need us, she writes, to form them again in our clumsy mouths, swaddling them with our thick tongues. At one