Terminal Diagnosis

You do not step lightly into these poems of Bill Glose. Terminal Diagnosis hurtles us into heights and drops of hope and lament as extreme as the roller coaster ride in "Death Day." These are love poems in search of language to carry the poet's heartbreak after viewing his girlfriend's X-ray with its "dot of pure white" - "So little for something that can swallow a universe." Each poem is a gift into which he has lavished all his loves: foremost, the love for his woman, Dawn, but for nature...