The Small Nouns Crying Faith

The first word in this new collection by Phil Hall is verb and the last word is blurtip. Between these, many nouns cry out their faith within a hookless framework 1/2that sings in chorus while undermining such standard forms & tropes as the memoir, genealogy and the shepherd's calendar. With a rural pen, these poems talk frogs, carrots, local noises, partial words, remnants, dirt roads, deep breath & hope: my laboratory the moment

is 1/2accordion-shaped -- cluttered -- sopping & not eternal