Straddle Elephants fiction Barnes knows how to keep

Barnes knows how to keep the reader hooked

who led the original Alaska Sanders investigation

not in a hospital or pathology lab

he's at a loss to explain why

Straddle Elephants fiction Barnes knows how to keepBy: David Cavanagh Published by Salmon Poetry, 2015 The poems in Straddle, David Cavanagh's fourth collection, explore the perils and possibilities in living on borders, both physical and psychic. Cavanagh is a dual citizen who lives near the U. S. Canadian line; the poems suggest that we are all border dwellers. They probe the inner outer balance we all struggle to maintain. They straddle the challenges of daily life, try to reconcile contradictions,