The Center for Literary Publishing (2023, 85 pp.) “The darker/life becomes the more you/find forms/of silence/you never/before knew existed.” Brace yourself when you embark on this stunningly stark work of poems by Tommy Archuleta, a mental health counselor for the New Mexico Corrections Department. Spells and prayers can’t keep the dead from walking at night, and wherever you go the spirit of the deceased loved one wafts and looms. Grieving for a mother shades these delicate lyrical etchings.
