Inquiry into Loneliness

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Poems by Meg Harris. In Inquiry into Loneliness, Meg Harris regards the divine like a lover, noting even its smallest incarnations, overlooking nothing. In a somber funeral notice for a sandpiper, we are reminded of our own human inconsequence, yet the world is constant magic. Stars are ¿mercury rolling¿, a child¿s newborn skull bears the imprint of the place it was first loved. These poems are generous and welcoming, even of pain¿s inevitability. Meg Harris says yes, ¿Yes to divine intervention/Divine anything.¿Leslie McGrath, author of Out From the Pleiades. Meg Harris gives us snapshots into a wildly imagined ordinary universe with rich metaphor turning everything she touches into an extraordinary occurrence. In "Inquiry into Loneliness," "the wind has winter in its mouth" and "the stars fly / from fingertips". Linger on each page for a glimpse into a beautiful and mystical world. Amy King, author of The Missing Museum. Poems included: Yariguíes Brush-Finch, Origins, Inquiry into Loneliness, Memory, Apnea, Paradise Lost, Symbiosis, Bird Sanctuary, Hoboken 2012, Vulture, For Nonbelievers, Sloth, Poseidon, Travel, Vestigial, A Rose from Roger, Madonna and Child, Yes, to Ghosts, Starlet, Crystal, Heartbreaker and My Name.