Juxtaposed, these poems and poets reverberate. Friendship, locale, gender, and age are compelling currents encouraging such a confluence. Each man has composed and published poetry for at least two decades. An acute observance and reverence for the natural world stretches above this collection like an oversoul. Emotions are tempered in these poems and investigated with a dignified, slightly ironic masculine detachment.
Language is direct and grounded.
Occasionally myth is glimpsed brushing quickly against a reality which is nearly always contemplated for its own sake. Sometimes the poems seem in the process of focusing as though continually moving closer to examine grit, dust flecks, and pollen. After a while one ignores the initials in small print and no longer wonders about each poem's maker. Applegate Roseburg, Oregon, Fall 1991 .