Reviewed by Mary Beth Hines In her debut, award-winning collection, Persephone Heads for the Gate, Merrill Oliver Douglas spins a world saturated with color,
I kept telling my teacher that I don’t know this minuet. Only my hands know it, only my fingers and how they stretch the
Funneling to a point like the mold of an upside down birthday hat: Armadillos, my neighbor said, scratching a waxy ear. Little armored ones,
Walking through the green dunes on our way to Abbott’s Lagoon, I ask if she remembers the weasel we saw years ago here, running