Walking Backwards

Collected poems from Americas searching and thoughtful philosopher-poet . . . There s something Comforting about rituals renewed, even adolescents pipe dreams: They ll find out soon enough, and meanwhile find their places In the eternal scenery, less auguries or cautionary tales Than parts of an unchanging whole, as ripe for contemplation As a planisphere or the clouds: the vexed destinies, the shared life, The sempiternal spectacle of someone preaching to the choir While walking backwards in the moment on a warm spring afternoon. John Koethes poemsalways dynamic and in process, never static…