The Shape of Caught Water

Poetry. In this human family, a man digs a hole in his backyard for a swimming pool, hoping the excavation will hold his children as he divorces their mother. Another inks his lover's name on his knuckles; a teenage daughter explores her sexuality. A wife sings to her husband, who does not hear, through a marriage muted by disappointment. The inhabitants learn a language that lifts beyond the bills being paid, drunk on the memory of tastes they had nearly forgotten. These are...
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Poetry. In this human family, a man digs a hole in his backyard for a swimming pool, hoping the excavation will hold his children as he divorces their mother. Another inks his lover's name on his knuckles; a teenage daughter explores her sexuality. A wife sings to her husband, who does not hear, through a marriage muted by disappointment. The inhabitants learn a language that lifts beyond the bills being paid, drunk on the memory of tastes they had nearly forgotten. These are unwavering poems marked by flirtation, anger, forgiveness, and praise, poured into vases of roses, blessed with THE SHAPE OF CAUGHT WATER.

"I salute this poet of intimate yet powerful connections."—Margaret Randall

"[S]trums the lyre's strings of the heart to conjure olé music."—Jimmy Santiago Baca