Gloria Frym — Any Time Soon

“In the case of Vietnam, what is a reference” writes Michael Palmer over 20 years ago in the context of a different war and different time. In Any Time Soon, Frym writes from the reality that “there is no post war” or external context from which to view our current saturation. Language occurs in the thick of it, taking a “swipe at “friendly fire”" ,watching “the poles and their birdhouses.” Yet, as in this line, where political obsession twists towards avian respite, Frym’s lines torque from exasperation, and critique, to tenderness. Or, to put it another way, she writes “…I would like to find money/ you didn’t know I had/ Under my pillow in an unmarked envelope/ on a rose marked High Octane Stocks// Can you handle this?”

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