This is a place I love to sit. These planks play host to something new. The knots and lines and pools of gold… We thought it strange, when it was built. That knot looks like a screaming face. The day he cut the oak tree down I knew that he must die. “A god lives…
Versing the Mystery. By Christopher Villiers. Waterloo, ON: Arouca Press, 2024. 202 pp. $19.95 (paperback). Poetry has been long believed to hold mystical, even sacred powers. Up until the modern period, it has historically held more reverence and cultural sway than prose. As James Matthew Wilson asserts in The Fortunes of Poetry in an Age…