The Gate of Play
Hamel, Joseph In reading Joseph Hamel's poetry, you begin a walk down a familiar street and end up taking a turn you never have before or through a forest path that you thought you knew but now everything looks more marvelous and more frightful. And you take this walk with someone you care about, and you take this walk with yourself. A beautiful world surrounds with a "blue river" and "falling dark, " with the "first alarm of autumn" and "spiders' webs" so ...