Arrivals

Arrivals is the third book of poetry by a master of New Formalism and New Narrative. Winner of the Nicholas Roerich Prize and the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, Mason examines travel, arrival, home."Acrostic from Aegina"Anemones you brought back from the pathNod in a glass beside our rumpled bed.Now you are far away. In the -aftermathEven these flowers arouse my sleepy head.Love, when I think of the ready look in your eyes,Erotas that would make these stone walls blushNerves me to write away the morning's hush.Nadir of longing, and the red -anemonesOver the lucent rim-my poor designs,X-rated praise I've hidden between these lines.