"John is brilliant at communicating. She's also really funny. Poems don't get more direct and precise and unforgettable than this." —National Posttotal is a work of contemporary mysticism, a lunar erotics of rage and grief. Here the glory of the quotidian is balm, study, and companion for the poet’s pilgrimage across deserts of loss and absence. total is prayerfulness as claws out, eyes wet, throat open, eyes turned up and in.
"John is brilliant at communicating. She's also really funny. Poems don't get more direct and precise and unforgettable than this." —National Post
WE ACCESS THE MIRACLE
Through ease
Is the hypothesis.
The task is to source from the quiet
Instruction
And from confusion
The instinct organized
As impulse and
Into my arms as extension.
I walk back to the hotel
With two limes and a watermelon.
Tonight:
Water and watermelon
