Review by Emily Updegraff In Your Mother’s Bear Gun (River River Books, 2025), animal, vegetable, and mineral form much of each poem’s vocabulary. Like
I woke up with the blues today, no, that’s not quite true, I woke up hungover from a dream—I know— you don’t want to
Behind the cafeteria dumpster on a humid April night, I was knighted by the fierce ones, Random Boy of Sorrows. It was the height
After I waved and you said hi I could not return to that spot in Florida and undo our meeting. If I tucked