Judge Tree Riesener’s comments: “We go right along with this author from a commonplace beginning (becoming silent -- who doesn’t sometimes) into a surreal world and finally into an open-ended theological comment. This is a poem that seems to be grounded in a real person but perhaps in the end can best be seen as commentary on the human condition. The clear, almost journalistic vocabulary uses the only type of words appropriate for description of such incapacity, whether from inward lack of decision or from the gradual diminution of human ability in a politically mad world.”