Wedding Day

From Ars Poetica

Six monarch butterfly cocoons clinging to the back of your throat—
you could feel their gold wings trembling. . .

Dana Levin’s singular voice and talent are unmistakable. Wedding Day is Levin’s quest to synthesize the public and private, to find pattern and connection amid the disparate elements of modern life. Relentless in her examinations, she ultimately puts faith in poetry, believing it is the truest means—and best chance—to bridge…