Glaciology

“Once I walked a thin rail through a glacier” begins “Shattered Bio,” the first poem in Glaciology , Jeffrey Skinner’s latest collection of poetry. Filled with images that slide into one another in a dreamlike way, from the “squeak of pine trees in a forest” to “pinwheel, the baby’s hand,” the poem provides a precise way of seeing how layers of tenderness and danger melt into one another, inhabiting the same world. At the center of the book, the eighteen-part title poem “Glaciology” takes reader