Salamander Morning

Nadine Hitchiner's Salamander Morning is a tender, deeply contemplative, and meticulously wrought study of the self over the course of a life. "Everything is / moveable, even us..." we are told, and what a miracle this might be: the ability to accumulate experience-to witness, to learn, to adjust. Though, instead, encounter a speaker steady in her sadness. "[W]hat have I done, but put grief / into joy's chariot?" she asks, continually troubled by her life's fruition: "I don't trust time / does m