Otherwise Elsewhere: Poems

You pay as you go. Mornings

at this point are either like spread sails or (more likely)

spread-sheets—they fill fast. Mornings are fortunes,

but as suspect as a wristwatch running in reverse.

—from "Vigorish"

David Rivard's new collection Otherwise Elsewhere describes the many powers—psychological and historical—that flow through people's lives in acts of faith, greed, pleasure, celebrity, gossip, ...