Naked Oyster by Poppy Cockburn Jon Glover which opens with a section

which opens with a section of quarantine poems

and damaged inheritance

that window continues to operate as both framework and focal point for the writing

but the strange detours consciousness must take to know itself--”I’m interested in the edge/I strive toward

' —Ocean Vuong

Naked Oyster by Poppy Cockburn Jon Glover which opens with a sectionNaked Oyster, the debut collection by Poppy Cockburn author of pamphlets such as Liquid Crystal Lovesick Demon and feed notes gathers 100 odd of her pithiest, prettiest and most coruscating poems. A specialist of the aphorism, the two to four liner in her hands is turned like a joke, a curse, a mirror, a glowstick, a dart; precision and point hasnt achieved this density per inch since the Roman eprigrammists of the 2nd Century. Sly, sensual, comely,