Communion

These poems tell the love story of s, a shy everyman who excels at tic-tac-toe and loves small, moist dumplings and n, a right-brained everywoman who reads Wittgenstein and Anaïs Nin and prefers large dumplings. Somehow they make it work. In these big-hearted, clear-eyed, short-lined gasps, Nettie Farris grasps that the key to dilly-dallying is to sigh into little poems, to amuse oneself with a pink balloon from time to time, and to pursue the Rosetta Stone to someone else's heart. --Tom C. Hunley