Susan Cowger

6B Pencils

Arts & Literature

“Karen Mobley’s poems brim with expectancy and finding. Unafraid, Mobley explores the full range of life: heady lust gone flaccid, cancer, crows, a woodpecker, ants. The ever-present question of little fingers on one hand. How does one navigate the full stops of death, loss? Each poem holds within an unwillingness to give up. The first poem offers in its tiny hands the insistent wonder Karen finds in our imperfect world. Within life’s harsh realities—who can find, like Karen, what will save the world?”