Present Conditions (the Hollyridge Press Chapbook Series)

In his new chapbook, Present Conditions, Joseph Massey writes that "the weather within / is the weather without." His poems chronicle a difficult winter where the universe grows colder, his speaker taking all day to "filter out the debris of a dream."  These poems bring us the aching beauty of the natural world, and the crushing sadness of interior space.  A speaker's failed suicide.  The return to sanity.  The waiting where we can't go on, but we do go on, if nothing else when "the windows / . . . go blind."