Meridian ” He allows us to

” He allows us to tramp alongside him through this “beggared Eden

/ burning the world as they go

” The poems in Night Court are often starkly rendered

Her rhymes

Dobreer wraps her lyric scarves around the reader's psyche where one is drawn into the dance

Meridian ” He allows us toBeginning with an exhortation as finely calibrated as clockworkdear reader Im trapped beating on the other pages sideand proceeding in filigreed language that is at once sparse and lush, Raymond Gibsons Meridian reads like a French detective novel translated by Sappho into sparking, barking and completely original English. Brimming with invention and intelligence, this is poetry that cuts to the bone and reaches the ether. As a moth lays eggs on a