Bindweed by Mark Roper ocean vuong Life goes on its desultory

Life goes on its desultory way

and new discoveries

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Bindweed by Mark Roper ocean vuong Life goes on its desultoryFrom meditations on the glimpsed and the fleeting presences so small they slip through cracks in the day to ruminations on some of the most pressing concerns of our time, the poems in Mark Ropers new collection play a series of variations on how we perceive and try to connect with the more than human world. There are poems addressed to familiar companions such as the moon, or a shadow (your dark matter neither life nor soul); poems that stem from