In eight lanes of rumble and tick

whine and click of engines halt and go

I don't know

how I heard them . . .

Poetry happens. To the poet and to the reader. The effect, for both, should be roughly the same. Something remarkable occurs. The poet forges that something into a poem capable of making it happen again for the reader. Maybe you hate poetry. Some do. But it's calling for you, like those geese honking across the sky at sunset.

This Is Like That: Poems and Process is a collection of lyric poems about life and nature. Included between the poems are reflections on the creative process and reflection spaces that invite the reader to add his or her own thoughts. Influenced by the work of Mary Oliver and A.R. Ammons, Mandy Monath's poems ponder the philosophical constructs that lie beneath the natural landscape.