Terri White

I Brake for Clouds

“A champion of child-like wonder, Dian Parrotta, in I Brake for Clouds, fashions poems out of thin air. Metaphors, fresh and lucid, pop and delight: clouds are fish scales, ziggurats, and nosegays. Parrotta’s imagination ranges from oceans filled with eons-old trilobites to lengths of modern conduit over our ‘shared sky.’ She revels in the reveal of beauty and danger that clouds—those co-conspirators of weather—can bring. Her verse flows, rich with heady diction, and the overall effect feels otherworldly. A bold collection of new work. Brava!”