God on His Haunches Ray Hsu Life is a little emptier

Life is a little emptier when we have lost touch with our world

all manner of poetic hats while always avoiding drab lyrical sentiment

–Foreword Magazine

secret hopes

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God on His Haunches Ray Hsu Life is a little emptierDescription Diane Tucker writes from experience and "the sustaining power of memory" in this first collection of poems. She writes of falling in love with the wrong person: "For you I ride without a seat belt, willing to be thrown clear at first impact"; her daughter at four months, whose fingertips "are globes of amber salmon roe cool smooth and salty"; and growing up as an adopted child: "mystery breathes on my bare shoulders whispers between my