TURPENTINE by Mark Young

TURPENTINE by Mark Young

Poetry, $12.00 US

ISBN 9781938521638

100 pp.

This masterful poetry extinguishes those artificial lines that distinguish a moment from a century. It is all here and available to us, Mark Young shows. “A late/afternoon/point of co-/incidence // this bench/in the/Botanical Gardens/shared/with Desnos/& Diogenes” reminds us nature crafts consciousness right back at us. “Black cockatoos . . .small white flowers.” This against the beautiful political purity of stating the truth in “damp trumpets.”

Where are the

submarines? I

shouted out. You

promised you'd

drain the swamp

so I'd be able

to see the submarines

that were lying

on the bottom.

Things come together from a distance above, revealing equally how far they are apart. Mark Young’s keen eye disturbs predictability. He knows from many angles refutation and commingling. Pachelbel’s Canon and mismatched feelings between a man and a woman.  -  Sheila E. Murphy

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