Report from the Confluence

Here, in Stacie Smith''s fifth collection of poems, are dispatches from these times, personal reports from the confluence of three streams: the realm of human events and behaviors, the realm of nature''s ways, and the realm of possibility created by their merging. All but one of the sixty poems in this collection were written in the years between 2018 and 2020, years that will long be remembered for a world-wide pandemic as well as social unrest and despair, years during which the stream of possibility appeared dry and deserted.