Post & Line: Poems Mike Chase Humans have lived

Humans have lived

quiet seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother tends to the off-season customers

we are faced with the fact that nearly every aspect of modern life now takes place in filtered

and life stretches out long and lonely ahead of them

Tommy and Tuppence

Post & Line: Poems Mike Chase Humans have livedDamrosch's new collection of poetry, Post & Line, brims with connection and community, both with humans (bank tellers, grocery baggers, neighbors, family) and through visitations with all sorts of creatures (owls, kiskadees, Carolina wrens, goldfinches, to name a few). Words themselves also come within the scope of her acute attention. The words need us, she writes, to form them again in our clumsy mouths, swaddling them with our thick tongues. At one