Lives

Here are poems with music matched to matter, so that reading them often involves both swoon and startle: 'When it folds open, the rule-less rile / of sky,' Evans, writes, 'the comets and giants. And also: / books, chamomile, and more kissing.' Panoramic in time and space, Lives knows each of us, our ordinary lives and our occupancy within history and the universe, our yearning for connection: 'And if I turned to you now, my one wet muscle run dry, would you / turn to me? And what else could my heart be for if not to try?'