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
The freshly vacuumed carpet, a lush white lawn, deserves to be perfect, and I’ve got two knees and a pair of nail scissors to
The gray young of the year huddle still under a tender shrub, long ears at ease along the fur of their dun backs, dumb
When what was tumbling became tumbled, kissed and glistened there. When the sunset on the mountain pressed close what hadn’t been. When the gloaming