divining
by Deb Akers
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Poems by Deborah Akers.
As the title suggest, divining involves discovering or intuiting hidden truths or insights. Deborah Akers' poems serve like divining rods, seeking what underlies geographical, seasonal, and emotional change; offering glimpses of convergences like waves "drenching the curve / of a waiting ear" or what's immanent in summer raspberries and blueberries: a "ripe handful / of days."
In "divining" Deborah Akers twines the threads of Pacific Northwest geology, flora, and fauna into a lean and muscular line played out with graceful, apt attention. One can almost taste the salt tang in the air.