TELEPATHY

Johnston works along revitalized lyric lines with a distinctive sense of rhyme and take on love and loss: "Memory marks/ time in changing/ station, accent/ or form of work// yet has no finer/ calibration./ And so a crack/ runs through this cup." In six sections of finely wrought but always lucid and luminous work, Johnston takes up Beckett's distinction between "Molloy & Mollose," sings "Belated Songs" and makes "Insinuations"—"A trembling horizon/ of elocution."