of God yes by the but
————-—not there but for the
act of yes acts of but
————-—not a given state of
saving as divine but
————-—can fall from
a she or one of three
————-—-ful or full of
a period extended a
————-—note just before
something said before
————-—yes before
Martha Collins’s tenth book of poems, Because What Else Could I Do (Pittsburgh), won the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award. Her eleventh, Casualty Reports (Pittsburgh), is due out this fall. Her fifth book of co-translated Vietnamese poems will be out in the spring.