Laura Maher & L.I. Henley - Ordinary Light BOOK

Bamboo Dart Press, 50 pages.

Born and raised in desert towns hundreds of miles apart,  Laura Maher and L.I. Henley found each other through poetry. Ordinary Light traces a correspondence of the growing connections of two strangers, uncovering a shared archeological dig of lost loves, regrets, questions, and other half-buried artifacts of memory. Place, both geological and historical, are at the center of these poems, as are concerns about illness, climate change, gender-based violence, and political unrest.