Days of a Chameleon: Collected Poems

From Jim Bowie preparing to die at the Alamo to a dung beetle rolling home, from mallard ducks in tweed to a church-goer afraid to be found, from snakeskins to serial killers, fl oods to grey foxes, Jeff rey DeLotto’s poems fi nd light and darkness, calm and storm, ant and Arab suq equally fascinating. Taking his title from Keats’ ideal of a poet as chameleon, DeLotto inhabits the world large and small in these collected poems, seeing empathy as the essence of understanding.