Rhonda Batchelor
Allow Me: Poems, 2000-2020.
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: Ekstasis Edition, 2021. First edition. 9781771714488 80 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6" x 9", is new.
"These are tender, grave poems and it's as though the poet is encountering everything - a fox, a tunnel, a lily, a sunset - for the first and last time. "Allow Me" is an eyes-cracked meditation on time, what we do with it, and how it treats us. We must pay attention to the silences between comings and goings, between lines and stanzas and poems; the poems themselves are loud with life and what comes to life from the other side."