Meanwhile, on the Starship Enterprise

Chris Murray's delightful little book, Meme Me Up, Scotty!, which she produced to accompany her recent reading at The Carrboro Poetry Festival, has just been transported into my letterbox.

A deceptive volume in that it has much more weight than its size suggests.
It dances, it sings. It is an exquisite collection. From "Jump Phrasing 1" that starts

Turning it on garden then
standing fresh
in blueberry for
the grace
note

through to the beautiful "Postcard from Novi Sad" that ends

...your first cry, your first I, that one
echo holding you on the sloped roof
of first word, first window gaze
on yes: shared, how "things are good."

Yes, Chris, things are good. I would have loved to have been there to hear you read these poems.