I downloaded this book on my phone because I needed something to read in small bits while waiting at the hospital, then I realized that it was the same book that an instructor used in a mindfulness workshop I took last year, the one with a poem that made us in the class sigh happily and that I made a mental note to read in full at some point.

It ended up being the perfect book for me and for the time. The poems are observational and grounded in all the ways I like and try to be when I write poetry. I started a spread in my book journal just for quotes, because I was highlighting sections of nearly every poem and knew that I would want to carry the lines with me. This is maybe the only writing about the pandemic that I've ever liked, and the kind of poetry that reassures me that people are still writing good poetry.

An immediate favorite of the year.