Everything is Loose is our second Scrap Chap of poetry by the wonderful writer Karl McComas-Reichl. The poems are beautiful and strange and very hard to describe. McComas-Reichl is not necessarily writing about this world, but it all seems familiar. His poetry is shockingly fresh, sometimes tender, sometimes funny, but always unexpected. Here is a list of our attempts to describe the book which we ultimately rejected but are going to list here anyway:

-grounded in uncertainty
-part magic realism, part vegan adventure story
-Gene Hackman meets Q-Tip... finally!
-Everything is Loose is loose.
-post-poetry or super-poetry?

SOLD OUT

Here is an excerpt from Everything is Loose:

Moving to California in the

middle of the night with no

stuff. Trying to find our new

house based on the salvia plant

that is supposed to be grow-

ing in the front yard. We end

up finding Danielle Wheeler’s

house towards the dawn side.

It has a small small small

fenced-in yard with bleached

grass. She is loading her three

horses and thirty or so ducks

into a U-haul for the night. I

help her close the back door

and lock it; this seems natu-

ral. She hugs us both for a

long time and I think that per-

haps I should tell her that one

of our horses has fallen off

the mountain.

Karl McComas-Reichl is also an accomplished musician, and you can learn more about him here.