Keegan Lester Draws an Ace [by Ace Boggess]

HIGH ENERGY AND MOVEMENT

“a river chipped with stars,

night continues on without me.” by Keegan Lester

http://www.poolpoetry.com/poet-keegan-lester.html

What first drew me to David Lehman’s daily poems twenty years ago, and more recently the books of Matthew Lippman, is the pure kinetic energy of them. These poems travel great distances in just a page or two. They are like taking a trip from New York to Florida but winding up in California, while depicting all the stops along the way. Keegan Lester’s poem “a river chipped with stars, / night continues on without me.” does this (as do so many of his poems). This poem spins, spirals, sidesteps, dances. It dovetails a bit, yet leaves the reader in a new and unfamiliar place by the end.