This Way About

Hoovers poetry seems to me closely related to her music. We often speak of poetry as musical when in addition to the meaning of the words their sound has its own interest These poems are frequently deeply heartfelt. They are also wonderfully varied.-Leslie Gerber (music critic, poet, and author of Lies of the Poets)And so we began asilent circling vigilI, moving, pausingthe hawk lifting, glidingthen perching nearby,a long, liquid dance.Music,my love,you spoke to me as a childwatering the desert of my heart;beckoning with urgencyyou took my soulfor your own.Well, handsome, I guess itsnot in the stars butIll havethe touch of your suedevest and the sweepof your shouldersto goI took some leavesa spider webflowers, rainI cut them in piecessewed them in stripsand bound them withribbons.Running in the parkelectric exhilarationin a brisk windsweatshirts, ruddy cheeks andbrotherhoodwith the fast and slow