cover image The Missing

The Missing

Rangi McNeil. Sheep Meadow Press, $12.95 (64pp) ISBN 978-1-931357-09-8

""Though a man & a lover of men/ I know little of the men I come from,"" and they are counted among The Missing in Rangi McNeil's debut. These 62 lyrics, most just a few lines, include a mother (""between grief & nothing/ she left him grief""), ""Neighbors"" (""Mr. Rufus & Mrs. Josephine are dead""), a two line poem in the voice of ""Surviving Sisters,"" and many other portions of ""The Divisible Heart.""