Menagerie by Cheryl Pearson
PBS Autumn Pamphlet Choice 2020 Mark Pajak he writes: ‘I keep looking

he writes: ‘I keep looking for what has always been mine / searching for it even as I / think of leaving it

“teeters on the verge of taking flight”

remote and for so long an outcast in Europe

fragmentary and terrifying

Menagerie by Cheryl Pearson <br><b>PBS Autumn Pamphlet Choice 2020</b> Mark Pajak he writes: ‘I keep lookingMenagerie is a collection of poems about animals, divided into three sections: water, earth and air. Some poems examine a creature from close up, almost allowing the reader to see the world through the animals eyes, while the poet is more present in other poems, looking on. The collection invites the reader to reflect on loneliness, love, mortality, and hope.