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
After I waved and you said hi I could not return to that spot in Florida and undo our meeting. If I tucked
Provençal—My heart remembers it Come to me once more in that soft cotton dress of moonlight falling from your shoulders like laughter between us
The swallow drools and drools for love, creates a nest of its love, which is stolen and boiled into soup. We call this a