Kindra McDonald

We Share the World

Arts & Literature

“Accomplishing feats of transformation only a practiced poet can, in We Share the World, Ayres is at the top of his craft mixing persona poems with faith and fable. ‘Who knew that would be so liberating?’ Asking the urgent question—'What matters?’—taking us from infant to elder and origin to imagined afterlife, through the many incarnations of self—Frankenstein, outlaw, fairy tale, animal, water, poet—Ayres asks us to examine truth and myth side-by-side in a world that makes that distinction difficult to discern. ‘My heart has places / That feel nothing but outrage.’ The difference between old and neglect, nurture and nourish asks all who share this world to consider ‘What will teach you to listen?’”