Motion Against Our Moorings

In the title poem of Motion Against Our Moorings, Joseph Powell writes, "Love is the rope stretching into the invisible.//How deeply we believe in the thinnest tethers./What's spirit but motion against our moorings." These poems consider love's intricacies, intimacies, its loss and return. They echo Frost's notion "Earth's the place for love" and capture its ethereal mysteries with compassion, humor, and respect. A line from "Prayer" shows the collection's impact; the poems "relight that ca...